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> Perhaps the only way to make this inevitable tide of pressure and debate work for us is first to recognise it as a collective issue Instead of identifying th
by talldayo 2y ago
> Perhaps the only way to make this inevitable tide of pressure and debate work for us is first to recognise it as a collective issue
Instead of identifying this as a market deficiency, they promote the idea that actually it's a collectivist cause. This isn't true, and it's an attempt to frame pronatalism as a "good versus evil" fight instead of a "cost optimization versus human interests" one. Again, Unherd will blame literally every single possible culprit except the concept of a free market betraying human interests. They deserve what they get, at this point.
- trealira 2y agoYou seem unreasonably angry at this article for not immediately denouncing capitalism, and ignoring any possibility that there's a cultural aspect. The free market is not a new concept; why wasn't the birth rate as much of a problem 70 years ago when the market was just as free then? It's because young people today don't want kids as much as the previous generations did. That said, I don't like having these kinds of articles on HN either.