• ConfusedMeAgain@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wow, a huge drop in the last 15 years. I find it interesting what governments are trying to do to encourage higher birth rates (I think South Korea and Japan try to promote more as wel). I understand it’s good for economics but the environmentalist in me is relieved at the thought of fewer people on the planet.

    • febra@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Nothing. They’ll do nothing. They will keep protecting their billionaire owners while young people struggle to make ends meet. Then they’ll wonder why no one is having kids

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      1 year ago

      A rapidly declining birth rate is bad for old people. Who pays taxes when they retire? Who works to wipe their butts when they can’t any more?

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            1 year ago

            It seems like jeffw was not sure ConfusedMeAgain understood the social implications of the economics and ConfusedMeAgain felt a bit undermined by that, because they mentioned the economics in the first comment already. You probably just agree with each other.