• chaogomu@lemmy.world
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    Want higher birthrates? Just convince people that tomorrow will be better than today.

    That’s how you see a spike in birth rates.

    To maintain a steady birthrate, just convince potential parents that the world will not be any worse for their children than it is today.

    See, easy.

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      They’re taking the opposite approach.

      In the past families had a bunch of kids because they needed extra laborers to stay afloat, plus childhood mortality rates were so dire they needed spares to cover for the ones who wouldn’t make it.

      We’re already seeing pushes towards removing child labor laws, and RFK Jr is well on his way to ensuring death from easily preventable diseases makes a comeback.

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      Capitalist Corporations: … hmmmm … I guess there’s no choice … artificial human breeding it is!

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        I feel like this is a plot of a dystopian movie somewhere where they breed artificial humans to make into slaves

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        Capitalism would also charge for every part of the process, raising the price as some techno feudal lord thinks they can find the right balance between extinction pricing and maximum shareholder value.

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          It’s always economically viable, just a matter of tracking all the expenses and adding it to the child’s debt. As soon as it’s old enough to work you can garnish it’s wages for all that unpaid debt

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          23 hours ago

          It would be economically viable up to a certain age. And if you maintained a certain age average, costs could be easily maintained to sustainable levels.

          When you start analyzing the world and people as a series of costs and expenses, it’s very easy to find solutions.

          As humans, we’ve already done that many times before … most recently in the 1940s on an industrial scale … we are capable of doing it again.

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      I mean… Shiiii. That sounds easy as hell! Jerry! Why didn’t you tell us about this idea before??? You have??? We’d have to give them HOW much to do that?? Nevermind then.