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Thinking about the fertility crisis facing most of the world has made me rethink the foundations of a 'good' society. People who have more education, income, in
by somenameforme 3y ago
Thinking about the fertility crisis facing most of the world has made me rethink the foundations of a 'good' society. People who have more education, income, intelligence, and secularity are simply not reproducing in anywhere even remotely near sustainable levels. So what's going to happen? These traits will naturally be removed from society, up until the point that this trend reverses.
So we will essentially be defacto empowering many of the views that you may consider undesirable. It really makes one rethink the relevance and place of sustainability. It seems that on any timescale that matters, it must be considered the most fundamentally critical value of any culture. Because in some ways society really is a sort of expanding zero-sum game. When one group declines, another group defacto rises.
It's really annoying that there seems to be little to nothing in the way of a compromise between indulgent excesses driving the death of procreation on one end, and 'trust nothing but the Book' driving successful procreation on the other. There needs be some sort of a cultural medium.
- xyzzyz 3y ago> Because in some ways society really is a sort of expanding zero-sum game. When one group declines, another group defacto rises. Yeah, in exponential processes, the exact value of the base matters exponentially.