I frequently just stand outside and look at the sky and think, yep, we weren’t meant to work all day. We were meant to pick berries and mushrooms and take naps. I feel better about my station in life, knowing those oligarchs can never be satisfied, and all I have to do to feel right is take a walk outside.

No, they want robots to work in the factories, because they don’t complain and don’t unionize, and don’t take time off, and work for electrons.

They are still saying this when it’s convenient for them. The only consistent thing for such people is their cowardice in the face of responsibility.

I cant tell if those are rhetorical questions because you’re upset…

Or if you genuinely don’t understand why the oligarchs are mad kids aren’t having babies…

I agree with the 1st sentence, but you cant expect people to wait until they are 30 to have kids

Its better to marry than to whore around… regardless of age, thats why “child” marriage should be legal but challenged by the families and test if there is actual love or nut

Live fast die young was most of human history, and I like it

We have way too much order, that it gets in the way

Think about that for a few years.

I remember when teen pregnancy was considered bad and a sign of a decaying morality across the country.

before that it was commonplace though. I’m 61, my grandmother started having her kids at 16, she had 8, one of them my mother, the youngest of her kids. Many of her friends were similarly 15-19 having thier first kid. My mother was 19 with me, I was born when she turned 20. She had 3 kids, i have none, my sister none and my brother 2, so family dynamics have changed.

This is Australia though, you can read books of some of the early convict ships coming over and they arrived with all the 13-16yr old girls pregnant, or having had their kid on board and being married etc

You can see some of the effect in The Philippines, pregnant teen mothers are everywhere. Religious indoctrination in regards anti contraception doesn’t stop teens fucking (and this in a nation with no divorce)

Only locally it’s a bad thing. Nationally, they need those girls waiting tables in diners. How else is someone going to get their nostalgia kick while driving route 66?

And don’t forget future soldiers are needed. There’s a place for everyone.

Now, now, let’s not pretend these people are encouraging sex, those young whores are still to be shamed.

They’re just supposed to have kids and be loyal to husbando. No pleasure involved.

(Also, they always supported teen pregnancy because they have always been anti-sex education and anti-contraceptive which allows the process of teenage parents to happen without them having to condone it).

Our masters want us to breed.

Every accusation a confession.

This just reminds me of a US coworker of mine who just became a great grandmother. It’s teen pregrancies all the way down. Mother at 16, grandmother in her 30s, great grandmother at 50.

Exactly, half of me expects them to spin this into, “Trump and Epstein were just trying to fix the population crisis.” Give it a week.

not a matter of “learning”, it’s a matter of “caring”

everyone knows by now this regime is full of pedophiles… but nobody gives enough of a fuck to do anything about it

Maybe change their names, to reveal who owns them. Say Ofelon, Ofdonald1, Ofdonald2, etc.

Logistics at a certain point does not care what economic model you follow. Someone has to plant the crops and do all the other work that leads to people being fed, clothed, and housed under any system.

If your demographics are such that there are not enough people of working age to take care of those too old to work, you’re going to have the kind of problems that led other human societies to kill their elders.

It’d be great if we could automate our way out of this, but I don’t see that happening soon enough.

In a regular society? Yes. But this is America we’re talking about.

Hell some of them ARE kids

Bullshit. We’d be extinct otherwise

When standards of living rise, birthrates drop.

Western countries, japan & korea all have low birthrates and all developed them as av. income rose. China too but one-child made it a less clear example. Even within a society, middle and upper classes have smaller families than the working class.

Declining birthrates can’t be fixed by improving living standards, but that’s fine because low birthrate is a good thing - a sign of a society doing well.

If a high income/low birthrate society needs more citizens, immigration from low income/high birthrate areas is the only viable option. Endless expansion is a fools errand anyway.

I think one other thing that’s super important to add on to this list is “desirable partners.” The current generation of young men have leaned hard into the alt-right pipeline while young women have become more left leaning as their rights are being threatened loudly and chipped away at globally.

My opinion is that doing all those things won’t magically fix the birthrate. Truth is that the more educated a country is, the lower its birthrate is. Countries like Korea and Japan have the lowest birthrate but also the highest literacy rate and most educated populations. While countries like Afghanistan and several African countries have high birthrate but also poor education levels and high infant mortality rates. More educated people realize that having kids sets them back from achieving their goals with the time and energy it takes to raise them. And the ROI isn’t even guaranteed because kids move away once their adults and aren’t necessarily going to take care of parents in their old age.

The details aren’t complicated, these rich fucks literally just need to pay their share of taxes and almost all of these criteria could be met. It’s simple.

I’d even take all of the above minus the hope. I’m not about to wait for a perfect world in order to live life to the fullest.

But I’ll be damned if I ever raise a child in suffering and abject poverty.

That one scene in Seven comes to mind, where the wife asks Morgan Freeman for his advice on whether or not she should bring a child into this world. And I tend to agree with his thoughts on it.

They were angry about “single mothers” for decades, but that was a racist dog whistle.

If you’re all white, it’s all right.

They’re Republicans. Of course they are concerned about teen pregnancies.

Who do you think is making them pragernet?