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re: Desire for social status --> Lower fertility rate (less children) worldwide
Posted on 7/28/18 at 6:27 pm to AUsteriskPride
Posted on 7/28/18 at 6:27 pm to AUsteriskPride
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As it is now, we're on track to breed ourselves into extinction because degenerates are overwhelming diluting the gene pool.
This is the exact reason I don't have, and won't have kids.
Why in the flying frick would I want to bring children in to this fricked up world that's going full speed right off a cliff?
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Posted on 7/28/18 at 6:30 pm to High C
Birthrates go down as economic conditions improve. This has been known for centuries. In unstable societies, you need a lot of children to insure some survive to adulthood.
Posted on 7/28/18 at 6:41 pm to Jim Rockford
Yeah, it's not new by any stretch. There are new factors at play now, though.
Posted on 7/28/18 at 6:46 pm to High C
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The areas were we see the greatest declines in fertility are areas with modern labor markets that have intense competition for jobs and an overwhelming diversity of consumer goods available to signal well-being and social status
This answers the question about the fall of any great civilization. Those that struggled to gain economic status eventually saw their numbers passed up by those that were just 'laborers'. At some point the underprivileged rose up, and just took what they wanted
Then the vicious cycle starts all over again
Its a cautionary tale about our own immigration policy. We risk any perceived safety and security of our grandchildren, if we ignore this reality
Posted on 7/28/18 at 7:10 pm to High C
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Well, it is from 2016. They didn't know very much about scientific studies back then.
Posted on 7/28/18 at 7:15 pm to AUsteriskPride
Somewhere millions of light-years away, a star supernovas with the force of a thousand suns and turns into a blackhole.
This black hole, in a million million million million million million million million years, will evaporate, along with its contemporaries. The universe will then be dead forever.
I'm going to get drunk, bang chicks and drive sports cars.
This black hole, in a million million million million million million million million years, will evaporate, along with its contemporaries. The universe will then be dead forever.
I'm going to get drunk, bang chicks and drive sports cars.
This post was edited on 7/28/18 at 7:16 pm
Posted on 7/28/18 at 8:07 pm to AUsteriskPride
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I didn't necessarily want the responsibility of a child, but I know it's my duty to reproduce as dual graduate degree parents with few health issues in our family.
If you’re anything like this post represents you to be, your great sacrifice isn’t doing the world any favors.
Posted on 7/28/18 at 8:09 pm to slackster
quote:And a lot of them still don't use condoms because the pope decided it was a sin
, no.
Sub-Saharan Africa has a replacement rate of roughly 2.4. The premise of the OP is still sound.
Posted on 7/28/18 at 8:35 pm to fallguy_1978
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The shittiest areas of the world breed the most. Yeah, this won't end in disaster
This is why Europe's current immigration crisis is so bad
Posted on 7/29/18 at 7:10 pm to Murray
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If you’re anything like this post represents you to be, your great sacrifice isn’t doing the world any favors.
Confident, brash, and to the point? I think the world needs much more of that.
Posted on 7/29/18 at 7:46 pm to AUsteriskPride
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Confident, brash, and to the point?
More like shallow, immature and conceited.
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I think the world needs much more of that.
You would. You’re wrong.
Posted on 7/29/18 at 7:48 pm to Centinel
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Why in the flying frick would I want to bring children in to this fricked up world that's going full speed right off a cliff?
I mean, at some level, if you really believe that, you have to decide whether you're going to help it happen or try to stop it.
You've chosen the former. Congrats. You're officially making it harder for those of us that have chosen to try and make a difference.
So frick you just a little.
Posted on 7/29/18 at 8:30 pm to Centinel
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This is the exact reason I don't have, and won't have kids. Why in the flying frick would I want to bring children in to this fricked up world that's going full speed right off a cliff?
I think that is a horrible...absolutely horrible reason to not have kids.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 10:08 am to High C
It’s pretty incredible that when you ban child labor and force people to stay in school longer to afford a living that people have fewer kids. It’s almost as if few people have more than 2 or 3 kids unless the government is paying them to or they can put those kids to work...
Posted on 7/30/18 at 12:56 pm to Murray
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More like shallow, immature and conceited.
Shallow? How in the heck is recognizing the world needs more offspring with more intelligence and fewer health issues in stable families shallow? Also, explain how I am immature? I'll allow conceited.
This post was edited on 7/30/18 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 7/30/18 at 2:07 pm to High C
People should stop worrying about status, and start worrying about having a larger family, unless they want America to become Venezuela or Zimbabwe.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 2:09 pm to TOSOV
It’s both.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 2:13 pm to fallguy_1978
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The shittiest areas of the world breed the most. Yeah, this won't end in disaster
Well that's the fertility rate, not replacement rate. I'd bed they have a lot higher death rate in Africa too.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 3:52 pm to High C
In shitty, awful places, what do you have to do that's fun besides bump uglies? Combine that with lack of birth control and whaddaya get?
It doesnt require a "study."
It doesnt require a "study."
Posted on 7/30/18 at 3:54 pm to Steadyhands
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Well that's the fertility rate, not replacement rate. I'd bed they have a lot higher death rate in Africa too.
The replacement rate in sub-Saharan Africa is roughly 2.5. The fertility rate is twice that.
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