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You have to wonder if this is new, or if society has been pressuring 25% of people in to having kids they didn't really want until recently.
by onion2k 5y ago
You have to wonder if this is new, or if society has been pressuring 25% of people in to having kids they didn't really want until recently.
- Analemma_ 5y agoOne of those thoughts which haunts me at night is the possibility that the "natural" rate of wanting children is too low to sustain a population, and so manipulation/coercion is required in order to survive as a species. What then?
- frockington1 5y agoOpen up the borders to developing nations who haven't figured that out yet
- BitwiseFool 5y agoRealistically the government will just increase immigration to sustain growth. In a long view of time, the fecund segment of the population will outgrow the segment that has very few children and things will return to normal.
- lbotos 5y agolike, this will sound very emo of me, but why does our species need to survive? What if our species got smaller in the next 100 years? Is that bad?
- BitwiseFool 5y agoThere's a difference between our species surviving and our species having a sustainable population. I personally think it's critical for the global population to contract but the only ethical way to do so is to try for lower birthrates across the world.
- betterunix2 5y agoUntil recently societies could only allow a small number of people to voluntarily not have children because death was so common. A society that could not produce enough children would eventually find itself lacking an adequate labor force to produce food or enough soldiers to defend against invasions. Individual happiness was less than a tertiary concern for most of human history; society needed people to reproduce and cultural expectations developed around that need. Our high-tech, modern world is very different from the historical norm.