Shall I kill myself? I have obviously failed in life, so I'm not sure what to do.
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Have you considered just smoking weed and playing vidya game all day?
I did but I ran out. Situation much worse now
GOP: "that's okay, just trap them to have children and make abortion illegal."
Remember JD Vance said that childless individuals "should not have as much of a voice."
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The few babies born in this generation will eventually be called “busters” from the “baby bust generation”
There was a time when a man with a highschool education could work a single full-time job to buy a house and support a stay at home partner and 2 children. Bring that back and you'll probably get more babies.
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The baby boom generation is dying off and you're supposed to replace that?
Who writes these articles? Do they even think? Do they pause for one moment to think?
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Maybe you can solve the problem by letting immigrants in
That wouldn't solve any issues, it would just replace to population
The problem is not having enough young people to balance out the eventually aging of the GenX and Millennial generations. If things get too top heavy on the elderly side, the entire house of cards that is consumer and service driven capitalism tends to start toppling over. Immigration has traditionally helped in this regard by providing younger labor and tax base when native populations fail to keep up.
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What issues are you having in mind?
Hmm, yes; replace a population of immigrants with checks notes another population of immigrants. Yes indeed that is somehow a problem.
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Especially in the US this ‘worry’ is ridiculous and a dogwhistle.
the one that built the country has every reason to govern who gets to live with them and who doesn't
Our leaders wouldn't mind that except that immigrants might come from countries where they grew up with access to banned books...
I don't think that racism boils down to red scare or whatever you are implying. Racism has a long tradition like the Asian Exclamation Act from 1924
I'm implying that our leaders don't want immigrants for the same reason they gut our educational funding, and that they attack our librarians. An educated population scares them.
The average immigrant has been educated (by school or by life) outside our controlling parties' spans of influence.
I'm from a country with a very narrow span of acceptable political ideas. The average imported person will expand our horizons, and weaken our fragile belief that our current two party system serves our best interests.
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Short term solution. As countries become more affluent the birth rate tends to drop. Globally countries are generally becoming more affluent. So you'll just shift the problem and run out of immigrants.
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Make it so that families can afford to have one parent stay at home all day while the other parent does some basic shit off of a high school education for a job they just walked in off the street for.
Now you know why the corporate backers of Republicans want to use their platform to outlaw abortion and birth control.
I always thought about it as a way to secretly promote gay agenda. If contraceptives were to be banned, I would've become celibate or gay
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Dang millennials! They must be the most powerful generation in... generations! Is there anything them avocado toasters can't ruin?
I now require a roaster shaped like an avocado. Capitalism Daddy please!
edit: It exists! https://www.ebay.com/itm/315410660299?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28
How is that shaped like an avocado?
Poorly.
The toast looks like avocado though!
You don't have kids because it's too expensive.
I don't have kids because I'm immature, irresponsible, would screw it up like everything else in my life, can't even take care of myself let alone another human, these genes aren't worth passing on, climate change will almost certainly never be taken as seriously as it should be, and it's not like there's anyone that would want to have my kids anyway.
We are not the same.
And also it's too expensive.
I don't have kids because I find fulfillment in life without them. I get to travel, spend time on hobbies, and have a social life. I know you can technically do those things while having kids, but generally not to the same degree.
Also, I think letting our population decline a bit is probably better for our species and our planet.
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Oh god, the r/fluentinfinance spambot found lemmy and is now spamming their posts here too
I'm not a bot though.
That’s exactly what a bot would say
Life fucked me up. I'm not giving it fresh sacrifices.
jokes on billionaires, because of your shitty greed there wont be anyone left to buy your worthless junk
They will be long dead before any of this matters, so I doubt they will care.
I think they have other plans like seeding mars with their semen, transporting their consciousness to a robot or cryofreezing themselves until infinite life becomes available to billionaires.
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And long dead ages before they'd run out of money even living a ridiculously lavish lifestyle...and yet profit and greed still somehow motivate them. Is it just the dick swinging thing about having the largest number on paper?
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When did we go from “baby boom” to “this is the correct population level we should sustain”. A boom eventually gets a correction
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Where can I get some of that $1200 rent that isn’t in the middle of some hillbilly backwater?
Lots of great smaller towns in the middle of the country. Usually pretty progressive too if you stay in town.
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Who cares, let population decline for a generation or so. Maybe we will stop producing so much shit and scale back
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Republicans: the solution is fascism!
After a century of telling people work, career, consumption and wealth are the most important thing in their life, business leaders are now shocked people will prioritize work, career, consumption and wealth over having many children.
Furthermore, after cutting programs for making child care, health care and education affordable, politicians are wondering why people don't bring as much children into the world that need a lot of health care, child care and education.
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