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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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The real reason no govt can resolve the fertility rate issue is because none of them are farsighted enough (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Everybody knows what needs to be done. Parenthood needs to be sustainable for the parents. There's just no political will to implement a policy that will only start paying off in 20+ years. Every politician kicks the can down the road, or implements half-hearted policies.

Edit: Just realised I posted this to the wrong instance comm 😅

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

The issue is not the lower fertility rate itself. The issue is

capitalism assuming the impossible - infinite pop growth
governments with a tribal mindset trying to outcompete each other in number of heads, so they force their populations to murder or subjugate each other

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Infinite growth is absolutely possible as long as it's combined with regular terrifying contraction and reduction; When growth slows down, engineer genocide until there's plenty of room to grow. It's a long embraced human tradition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think that globalised megacorporations make this sort of chainsaw growth less feasible over time, since you can't extract surplus value from dead people. That wasn't a big deal before because corporations were mostly restricted by country/government, but now they're basically everywhere.

[inb4: this does NOT mean that globalised megacorporations are against genocide. Far from that - it's just that they'd rather order their governments to engage in genocide in other situations. Such as megacorpo turf wars.]

[–] ulterno 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Time for Big Grave to get a piece of the pie

Now to harvest all data and materials out of dead bodies for max-profit.

Multiple post-mortem scans to identify lifestyle parameters and extrapolate to get past buying habits and predict future generation's buying trends.

Then extract longer living organs and bones for use in hyper-processed products. Leave the skin, so that taxidermists can then charge a premium from the relatives to make the "body" look like a real dead person's body before public incineration or embalming and engraving.

Then research zombification ...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

>When Big Data meets horror movies

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