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Cake day: January 17th, 2024

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  • declining birth rates in the developing world

    Looks like it ain’t developing anymore lol

    I really like how you connected the birth rates and excessive consumerism as a self-fulfilling prophecy. As capitalism reaches its apex, motivations for increasing birth rate collapse. As birth rates collapse, excessive consumerism stagnates, because people can’t afford to retire.

















  • The main problem is that, even more so than the past, people’s politics is their identity.

    It’s their family, their church life, their friends, and possibly even their neighbors if they live in a particularly conservative area. The same is true for liberals.

    Trying to change them is quite literally like trying to change how they were raised, who they associate with, etc. In some cases, they may even be ostracized for “changing sides” if people found out.

    It’s just not feasible.