If AI and robots will take over so many jobs, why is a declining birthrate a bad thing, in the long term?
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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depends on where its decling, if its only like elderly left and the young not reproducing thats would be a problem.
I don't think ruzies are worried about technologies they can't even afford.
because all wars are a war of attrition. the country with the largest military or the deepest pockets always wins.
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…Wow.
So what’s the tankie angle to this? From that perspective, the war is objectively awful for Russia, even if all the stated war goals are true.
The tankie angle is that it’s NATO’s fault. Would never have happened if mean old west hadn’t invaded Ukraine and genocided Russian-speakers who are ethnically and linguistically identical to Ukrainians but also totally different and superior but also must be defended by daddy Vladdy.
And also Ukraine is an inseparable part of Russia, especially Crimea. Khrushchev was only kidding when he gave Crimea to Ukraine, which isn’t a real country.
And the west totally broke its verbal promise that no one’s ever heard to never allow another country into NATO. But The Budapest Memorandum wasn’t worth the paper it was written on. For some reason.
You just don’t understand Russian history. Russia has a very long memory. When it comes to grievances. Theirs.
You’re just russophobic.
Ugh, you said that way too well.
Still (again, rolling with the reasoning), it's an existential problem, no matter who's fault it is or how much of a victim they are or how much fatalism they've accepted...
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The beloved and benevolent putin is merely protecting the country from the overpopulation seen in the west.
There's no overpopulation in the west. Fertility rates are too low to maintain the current population.
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So what’s the tankie angle to this?
“Sure this news is bad, but what about this non sequitur?”
"see! Putin is pro environment! Less people is better!"
"Can't have racism if there are no remaining races!"
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Even russian women don't like russians.
I think the implication is actually that there's a marked dropoff of eligible young Russian men. To preserve a generation, Russia might soon need to use more North Koreans on the Ukrainian front, but that comes with its own problems and risks.
It's weird that Putin's avoiding peace negotiations, as he more than anyone needs to find a way to scale back the war effort before his hold on power begins to waver. I get that he needs to save face while doing so, but he's not gonna get conditions more favorable than a Trump administration, so the clock is ticking.
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yea putin, fuck the world up and then complain that people are not making kids. we will all die in our own filth when the infrastructure collapses and you can wipe your ass with all that money and power
No one wants their children to grow up in a corrupt Oligarchy.
That's not a good look.....
Interesting. I never really considered how we could use birth rates to extrapolate how many people may have died in war.
It's the Russian resistance's long game: in 10 years, there won't be enough young people left to send to die at the front, so the war will naturally peter out.
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No one wants to live in putins world
Shit i mean meow
If they classify it, it means it's a lot worse. Ukraine should send more steriliser over to russia.
Ukraine didn't cause Russian men to lose their balls, they gave those up willingly.