Passing on parenthood? Growing trend shows women choosing to remain child-free
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According to the Pew Research Center, 44% of non-parents aged 18 to 49 say it's "not too" or "not at all" likely they will ever have children.Follow NBC10 Bo...

Birth rates have dropped 20% since 2007. I don’t think we ever came back from the '08 crash. It’s just been smoke and mirrors.

  • ElHexo [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    once population have declined below some level, complex economic and societal organization becomes too hard to maintain.

    Sure, but we could halve the population today (and not in the ~100+ years that would actually take through declining birth rates) and we’d still have a global population similar to what it was in the mid 70s.

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 month ago

      If we manage to stabilise world population at mid 70s level, it would be a great success TBH. Birth rate decline is accelerating and majority of population would be old people, who are able to work much less and require a lot more care, so the raw labour power would be much smaller. I bet all of the West would introduce euthanasia to deal with it.

      Also, capitalism is working like shit, when the population is not growing, and if it begins to decline, it will crap itself much more than now, and it will accelerate decline even more, until this positive feedback results in either communism or agrarian traditionalism, and the latter currently seems more likely.