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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.
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.
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.
Then I guess we don't colonize space. Oh well.
Let’s just send robots out there.
As long as capitalism dominates society there's no worry about humanity ever making it off the planet before extinction.
Yes, the situation is dire. We’re basically on the verge of extinction with a mere 8 billion of us.
Why?
colonization involves child making, usually
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.
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