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> Those 20% would just figure that there's no need to have children when you can just focus on yourself and go largely extinct within a generation, replaced wit
by DowsingSpoon 2mo ago
> Those 20% would just figure that there's no need to have children when you can just focus on yourself and go largely extinct within a generation, replaced with some people from the higher tiers, but not nearly enough to make up for those who weren't born.
A person being _unemployed_ is not a hereditary trait. Also, while it's already pretty wild to effectively claim that about 20% of humanity carries some kind _doomed to be made unemployable by AI_ gene, it's another giant leap beyond that to declaring this cohort will uniformly choose not to reproduce and therefore become extinct.
- Tade0 2mo agoIt doesn't need to be hereditary. Just needs to be in the range where on one hand a person doesn't want the next generation to go through the same and on the other, where making the most out of their current situation means not starting a family. It's what's happening right now, just with poverty being the largest factor. Gig/minimum wage workers start families considerably less often and no wonder - how they are supposed to?