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These are the guys that want us all to rent our stuff instead of buying it. "You will own nothing and you will be happy". Uh no. I'm not going to buy bug burge

by _abox 5y ago

These are the guys that want us all to rent our stuff instead of buying it. "You will own nothing and you will be happy". Uh no. I'm not going to buy bug burgers nor rent my stuff. What we should do is more population control. As a first step stop incentives for having children (Inn the Netherlands you get more child benefit per child the more you have!). It's tough for the people that want big families but we can't continue growing humanity like this.

arbitrary_name 5y ago
Ever eaten shrimp or crab?
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  No I don't like seafood.
dane-pgp 5y ago
The Netherlands has a fertility rate of less than 1.7 births per woman[0]. The only reason its population is slightly increasing is that people are living longer and people want to move to the country. In fact, the population of Europe as a whole actually declined slightly last year.[1] So we shouldn't be worrying about "big families", we should be worried about voluntary self-extinction. What do you think the correct population should be for the Netherlands or Europe, and what do you suggest we do when we reach it? Obviously the current level of government benefits per child aren't enough to keep the population level stable. [0] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NLD/netherlands/fertility-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NLD/netherlands/fertil... [1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/EUR/europe/population-growth-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/EUR/europe/population-...
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  I'm speaking about the world as a whole there. If the population of the Netherlands would decrease it would be good for the world as a whole. Of course any measures in asia would be far more powerful. But we have to set the example. We have to stop viewing world problems as national issues. Just like the climate problem, we can be 'green' because we externalise a lot of our carbon problems to other countries. That's not helpful at all. It's just smart bookkeeping to keep behaving as we are.

by _abox 5y ago

arbitrary_name 5y ago

Ever eaten shrimp or crab?

GekkePrutser 5y ago
No I don't like seafood.

dane-pgp 5y ago

The Netherlands has a fertility rate of less than 1.7 births per woman[0]. The only reason its population is slightly increasing is that people are living longer and people want to move to the country. In fact, the population of Europe as a whole actually declined slightly last year.[1] So we shouldn't be worrying about "big families", we should be worried about voluntary self-extinction. What do you think the correct population should be for the Netherlands or Europe, and what do you suggest we do when we reach it? Obviously the current level of government benefits per child aren't enough to keep the population level stable. [0] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NLD/netherlands/fertility-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NLD/netherlands/fertil... [1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/EUR/europe/population-growth-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/EUR/europe/population-...

GekkePrutser 5y ago
I'm speaking about the world as a whole there. If the population of the Netherlands would decrease it would be good for the world as a whole. Of course any measures in asia would be far more powerful. But we have to set the example. We have to stop viewing world problems as national issues. Just like the climate problem, we can be 'green' because we externalise a lot of our carbon problems to other countries. That's not helpful at all. It's just smart bookkeeping to keep behaving as we are.