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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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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)

submitted 2 years ago by EfreetSK to c/showerthoughts

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[–] j4k3 15 points 2 years ago

People would have kids now if it wasn't financial suicide. The lack of an effective government is the root cause of all of the issues.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years 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.

[–] Vaggumon 6 points 2 years ago

Then I guess we don't colonize space. Oh well.

[–] scrux 2 points 2 years ago

Let’s just send robots out there.

[–] psycho_driver 1 points 2 years ago

As long as capitalism dominates society there's no worry about humanity ever making it off the planet before extinction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, the situation is dire. We’re basically on the verge of extinction with a mere 8 billion of us.

[–] WhoRoger 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] Seven 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

colonization involves child making, usually

[–] WhoRoger 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

By the time space colonization may be a thing, people will live 500 years, be half robots, with full robots doing all the work and artificially growing new babies. People not wanting kids won't be an issue.

Well, or we'll all be long dead due to the nuclear wars for water.

[–] Seven 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

tbh if robots did all that for us, I fear we may be "content" with what we have on our hands and live inside our fantasy-sex ultra vr chat servers, although having children also involves "having" them too but yeah I guess the shower thought is kinda invalid lol