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Alternatively, the population practicing birth control could solve the crisis. Don't have kids if you don't own at least one home :)
by popcalc 2y ago
Alternatively, the population practicing birth control could solve the crisis. Don't have kids if you don't own at least one home :)
- utensil4778 2y ago"Poor people shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, that will fix our problems"
- popcalc 2y agoYou're allowed to ruin your children's lives, no doubt about that.
- twixfel 2y agoBetter to be alive, though, than simply never born in order to protect airbnb, as you would prefer.
- dindobre 2y agoIt's not even poor people, in some "advanced economies" we're getting to a point where income means very little, and inheriting means a lot. I've only seen such a lack of empathy in teenagers or silver spoons.
- lostlogin 2y agoWho do you think is going to do the work every facet of your life requires?
- popcalc 2y agoGo to Kuwait, everyone, even commoners host their maids and cooks in their main residences. Maybe we'll see a mainstream return to these arrangements in the States.
- phyllistine 2y agoThat is a worse system, and this public policy change is preferable to poor people having to be live in workers.
- eesmith 2y agoYour "everyone" does not seem to include the maids and cooks, almost as if you consider them nobodies.
- lostlogin 2y agoModern slavery comes to mind.
- elmomle 2y ago> Don't have kids if you don't own at least one home That isn't how human beings work, though, and it never has been. I tend to suspect that a person saying something like this has few if any deep relationships with people who cannot afford to own homes, because the statement shows no compassion for their experience.
- billfor 2y agoWe should at least stop treating population growth as an economic necessity (mostly because of corporations and the need to service a debt bubble). Where it ends up in the extreme case is people living on top of each other.
- popcalc 2y agoThe end result will be mass, society-wide indentured servitude. I say give it one century without any major paradigm shift (e.g. Industrial Revolution/geopolitical unrest).