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News flash for wealthy authoritarian parasites around the world, because you all seem ignorant of this fact:
Declining birthrates are a direct result of the simple fact that more people all the time decide that they have no desire to bring children into this world, and that in turn is a direct result of the fact that you've turned this world into a warped, corrupt, toxic, authoritarian shithole.
You have no one to blame but yourselves.
I disagree. There's a lot of reasons why people don't have children, including:
edit: sorry i realized i made these points US-specific but you were talking about russia, sorry.
They aren't necessarily US specific. Wages not keeping up with inflation and rising cost of living is a factor from South Korea to Japan to Singapore as well. Some countries muck it up themselves like China with their one child policy back in the day (even the Chinese fertility rate has dipped below 2.2, I think).
Well, it's only a very, very recent problem in Japan. They had stagnation for decades. Little to no change in wages, little to no change in prices. In 2011, I was making something like 33,000 USD per year there and living very comfortably with ample savings and what the Japanese considered to be a large apartment. It's a pretty affordable country, aside from travel. Or if you want to live in a fancy place in a desirable big city neighborhood.
(And yes, I have been to Japan since then and know that things have changed somewhat. It's still cheap compared to the US. Food is so cheap, it's amazing what you can get.)
So much of our world is based around women keeping it on the rails without receiving credit for their efforts.
In a developing country rates also go down with civilization as people learn how not to breed like bacteria. But once it's about choice, that starts to be a good list. I'd almost list safety as a common theme in them. And in Russia.. yeah.
My wife and I both work over 40 hour weeks. We are pretty comfortable especially compared to our friends and family members and we are not even close to buying a house and don’t have time to raise a kid and still think it’s too expensive to do so.
I REALLY wish it weren't against TOS to log into my Fedia.io account, and my piefed account to upvote you 3 times.
If only there was something he could do to reduce the death rate in Russia
Maybe barred windows? So many people seem to die from falling through windows there, apparently all terrible accidents
Orrrrr......and hear me out.......they buy better tanks, and train their military so they don't take so many casualties.
I mean, longshot here, but I GUESS they could technically stop trying to invade Ukraine, retreat their troops back into proper russia borders, and sign a peace treaty.......naaaahhhhh, that would never work! If it were THAT easy, they never would have chose to start a war they would lose so badly at! SURELY they only started this war because there was a good reason, right?.......right?........guys?
What are you talking about? Day 935 of the 3 day war is going great!
have they considered not sending everyone to ukraine to die?
At this point they don't even need to go to Ukraine anymore, they have Ukraine at home to deal with
That's right! Ukraine comes to you!
Every day, that final bullet comes closer and closer to putins head.
Nah, he needs babies for the meat grinder.
Wow that sounds terrible... Especially with encouraging employers to increase birth rates, a lot of sexual assault/harassment is going to be swept under the rug.
Yeah, that seems to be the point. He's again appealing to his macho fascist supporters by further enabling abusive behaviour. Domestic violence has been decriminalized for years already in Russia, violence against outgroups is allowed/encouraged, they have a national snitch on your neighbour system, ... It's become a true fascist society.
Newsflash. We’re talking about conservative Russia here. It already was :/.
Yo, you think Republicans aren't listening and taking notes? In fact they WOULD encourage sexual assaults. at work and everywhere else - gotta produce babies. It's how they roll.
Also they think it's their only hope of sex, because nobody willingly chooses them.
If he's concerned about the population, he can just stop sending young men off to war....
Seriously! Stop sending off the young men who could be fathers to die in Ukraine. At some point Ukraine will have killed over 1 million of these people that should never have had to leave home.
Plus the estimated million+ who smartly fled Russia in the first year of the war.
He is not concerned about the population, he is concerned about not having enough young men to send off to war.
“Being very busy at work is not a valid reason, but a lame excuse. You can engage in procreation during breaks because life flies by too quickly,” he remarked
Yes, birth rates are falling because nobody has time to fuck. That's definitely the problem...
Well of coarse they don't have time to fuck.....they're all too busy filling out paperwork for all the dead bodies that keep piling up.
If the fertility rate remains below 2, it will become harder and harder to wage war. And if it femains below 2 long enough there will be nobody left to wage war (or die in it).
So please sacrifice your precious time, health and money for your future children. Do it for the love of war!
They're doing a great job of removing young men already...
Soon enough all those ads about hot Russian women near me might become a reality!
I'm kinda skeptical that the constraining factor on Russia's fertility rate is frequency of sex.
(Most) humans love having sex. Sex is widely considered to be very good and enjoyable. So the fact that birth rates are declining says a lot about the state of the world.
It's possible to have sex and still not have kids......
I think the point is that incentivizing people to have more sex isn't the answer to a declining birth rate.
Russian navy:
oh god… seamen… seamen everywhere, in every compartment, inescapable. The seamen pervade everything. Save yourselves. And use cold water to get the stains out.
Finally, my hitting on that hot coworker isn't inappropriate but patriotic.
Depending on the industry banging your coworkers will not increase the birth rate.
does putin think two women can make a baby?
Probably not. But have you considered one male authority figure and a cohort of female underlings?
I think I tasted a bit of bile in the back of my throat when I read your comment.
oh. this will end well.
To raise their motivation to come to work, right?
To raise their motivation to come to work, right?
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