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It'll be really hard to colonize space if everyone wants to have no children or at max 1 child (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I sort of wonder whether the dropping birthrates are the last form of 'protest' we have left. It's not a real protest but simply neoliberal capitalism's consequences coming home to roost.

Admittedly, by the time it matters, powerful people can probably be made to live forever in some kind of Elysium style space station while the rabble fights over scraps, policed by autonomous robots.