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I don't understand worrying about falling birthrates.

There are 8 billion of us. I think it's a little premature to be worrying about the extinction of homo sapiens. Something tells me when we're not all working 40+ hours a week scrabbling for the same 20% of the resources, just maybe our birth rate will sort itself out.

>>ryandv+(OP)
There’s a quiet part I am going to say out loud. On a global scale, population decline isn’t an issue. The problem is /where/ the population decline is happening. Most of the global birth rate is made up by countries with low GINI indexes, low education, and high religiosity. Most of the decline is in high GINI index, highly educated, secular countries.

This population shift has a seriously high risk of causing the global failure of egalitarian democracies, and pushing humanity back into a highly repressive and dangerous state.

>>tristo+65
Capitalism eating itself?

>>Gryph0+7j
Exactly.

The open question is whether we're watching a possible regressive backslide... Or the global community pushing forward towards whatever comes after capitalism, because there's clearly a huge slice of those eight billion people that capitalism is doing few favors.

>>Gryph0+7j
more like socialist policies aftereffects, first of all government pension scheme which gave the illusion to working class they didnt need to have childrens as a safety net for old age relegating them as the "fruit of love". Spoiler: the system still need an above replacement fertitlity rate to keep the ponzi pension going