No idea why people don’t want to pump out more than 2.1 units per woman.
People living in significantly worse conditions have historically produced significantly more children.
But the modern post-industrial lifestyle discourages people from having children primarily because of easy access to birth control. That means you can fuck without risk of having babies. For young people, this is a no-brainer. Condom use, UIDs, and hormonal birth control have tanked teenage/early-20s birth rates everywhere it has been introduced. Combine this with good health care, globally, and many people no longer fear they will lose half their children to some infant malady or childhood accident. Low Child Mortality -> Lower Propensity to Have Kids.
If you want higher rates of reproduction in your population, you need younger people having babies. And you need more people convinced that the kids they do have won’t live to see adulthood.
Say what you will about the current Trump government, but we’re definitely moving in those directions.
DeepRoots@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I agree with you but people who call other humans fuck trophies or crotch goblins are usually just the fucking worst most insufferable people ever.
atro_city@fedia.io 16 hours ago
My entire message is filled with hyperbole and you go "all the other stuff is fine, but I draw the line at 'fuck trophy'". You're the type of person who will break up a peaceful demonstration because somebody wore the wrong clothes that day.
The enemy of good, the friend of perfect.
DeepRoots@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
holy straw man.
You don’t think I should call human children fuck trophy’s? You must be pro police brutality.
Jfc I clocked you perfectly it seems.
atro_city@fedia.io 2 hours ago
Sure you did. What are you, a cop that pulls over minorities by "clocking" them by instinct? GTFO