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[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 212 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 68 points 2 days ago

You said ban birth control and porn? Got it.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 36 points 2 days ago

Track everything people do and arrest them for unauthorised opinions? Got it.

[-] TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

The proliferation of unathorized opinions is threatening democracy! Doubleplus ungood.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

UK is already on it, lock up anyone for speaking about pantomime action.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

lock up anyone for speaking about pantomime action.

They should have silently mime'd about it then, I guess

[-] TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

The UK is just ahead of the curve

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

So that's why suddenly there's all this interest in banning porn

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 82 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] plyth@feddit.org 19 points 2 days ago

Capitalism ~~would also~~ charges for every part of the process

FTFY

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 17 points 2 days ago

Then they do the calculation on the costs to raise the children and decide it's not economically viable.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

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

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days 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.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

If we're going that route billionaires are less economically viable than children...

[-] Chev@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The robots are coming for our women. 🤖😳

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] borth@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

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.

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