Everybody knows what needs to be done. Parenthood needs to be sustainable for the parents. There’s just no political will to implement a policy that will only start paying off in 20+ years. Every politician kicks the can down the road, or implements half-hearted policies.

Edit: Just realised I posted this to the wrong instance comm 😅

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
    161·
    8 days ago

    The issue is not the lower fertility rate itself. The issue is

    • capitalism assuming the impossible - infinite pop growth
    • governments with a tribal mindset trying to outcompete each other in number of heads, so they force their populations to murder or subjugate each other
    • tankfox@midwest.socialEnglish
      113·
      8 days ago

      Infinite growth is absolutely possible as long as it’s combined with regular terrifying contraction and reduction; When growth slows down, engineer genocide until there’s plenty of room to grow. It’s a long embraced human tradition.

      • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
        1·
        8 days ago

        I think that globalised megacorporations make this sort of chainsaw growth less feasible over time, since you can’t extract surplus value from dead people. That wasn’t a big deal before because corporations were mostly restricted by country/government, but now they’re basically everywhere.

        [inb4: this does NOT mean that globalised megacorporations are against genocide. Far from that - it’s just that they’d rather order their governments to engage in genocide in other situations. Such as megacorpo turf wars.]

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          Time for Big Grave to get a piece of the pie

          Now to harvest all data and materials out of dead bodies for max-profit.

          Multiple post-mortem scans to identify lifestyle parameters and extrapolate to get past buying habits and predict future generation’s buying trends.

          Then extract longer living organs and bones for use in hyper-processed products. Leave the skin, so that taxidermists can then charge a premium from the relatives to make the “body” look like a real dead person’s body before public incineration or embalming and engraving.

          Then research zombification …