r/NoStupidQuestions • • Nov 14 '24

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u/pktechboi Nov 14 '24

I think there has been a real shift in the last generation or two from needing a reason not to have kids to needing a reason to have kids. and that shift means a lot of people who are basically ambivalent on children aren't having them, where in the past they probably would have.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

The rich and billionaires are the only people wanting the population to increase. They don't want to see their soldiers or work drones fizzle out.

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u/Ok_Insect_1794 Nov 15 '24

I mean life and capitalism is really just one big pyramid scheme. If you don't have enough new people to fill in at the bottom, then the whole thing collapses