• sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    English
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    13 days ago

    I love this community for some posts where people have serious discussions or stating their mind and other posts with shittalk mayhem

  • mHtt@lemmy.ca
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    25 days ago

    This is the true purpose of religion: to maintain the conveyor belt of cheap workers/soldiers through ‘marriage’, also the same reason religious folk universally agree on banning abortion.

  • frog@feddit.uk
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    27 days ago

    The people that want higher birth rates don’t care about higher wages, the environment, or people’s safety.

    They just need workers they can milk them until they can’t work anymore. They need these workers to spend all their money so they have to keep working.

    • whalesnrainbows@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      Yeah, people worried about “population decline” are actually concerned about their preferred race/religion losing political & cultural power.

      It’s a dog whistle every time

    • Fallibilist@feddit.uk
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      27 days ago

      Worry about population decline isn’t about wanting more people. It’s about wanting there to be enough working-age people to cover the retirement and medical payments of the ones no longer working. We know exactly how many 30-year-olds we’ll have in 20 years and it’s simply not enough. Something has to give and usually the first to go is the benefits for the people who most need them.

  • 42yeah@eviltoast.org
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    25 days ago

    The biggest problem is the aging population and the need to support them via social security, etc. As the population ages, the distribution becomes an inverted pyramid and we’ll need to pay for more and more people’s retirement. It’ll slowly become worse and worse as one person will eventually be responsible for the survival of 4-5 old people (and their family notwithstanding). Otherwise I think a declining population is fine.