• sexy_peach@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Wtf is this website and what is their goal? I couldn’t find anything on there, who are they??

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      1 year ago

      Why would you even want to stop population decline? It’s, like, actually very beneficial for the ones who then live in a less crowded world : |

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        1 year ago

        It’s on their weird about page

        “The crazy thing is, despite all this, people still want kids. The economy and social challenges—are the real culprits for the drop in birth rates, not a shift in attitudes. Countries with austerity measures, like the US, UK, Germany, Italy, and Greece, have lower birth rates than Denmark and France.”

        It seems to me that they are using population decline to go after austerity and NIMBYs

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        Long term, yes, great for the planet. But shorter term, a shrinking pool of working aged adults are going to have to care for a growing pool of elderly. Additionally, the overall economy is going to contact before the age cohort imbalance takes care of itself. Same thing is happening across most of the developed world, but it’s happening faster in China, and they’re less developed to start with.

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        Liberals believe in infinite growth, and for that to happen you also need infinite demographic growth to get an ever increasing work force and mass of consumers.

        They are just a bunch of weirdos.

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          And conservatives don’t?

          Capitalism is built on infinite growth.

          Get out of here with your political bullshit, especially when you don’t even know what you’re talking about.

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            They are referring to those who hold liberal market beliefs. Not liberal social beliefs. Also known as conservatives in the US.

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      Every article is by “David Demos” which is clearly a pseudonym. I’m not disagreeing with the conclusions, but it’s definitely a red flag for me when info about the author is so obscured. Like it’s fine to be anonymous of course, but there is no establishment of who this person is other than an About page that uses weirdly upbeat language to advocate for anti-austerity measures to support population growth which is itself a strange take and I would want to know more about who is making it and why.

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      I don’t know, I found this on Reddit when the guy came after Michael Deacon for blaming for millennials and pleasantly surprised it was for increasing social spending and building homes rather than some right wing nonsense.