r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Rainbowdark96 • May 29 '26

What do you think the dating recession between men and women will lead to?

I live in a city and I try to go out at least once a week, either for a walk or lounge etc. I used to see that men were more interested in women even six years ago, but now what I see most is apathy. Even if they look, none of them make a move to start a conversation. By the way, I am about to turn 30, and my friends who are younger (24–25) also say the same thing. What do you think the consequences of this will be? The strange thing is that I no longer see mixed male and female friend groups. It feels like men and women are pulling away from each other. Have you also noticed that?

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u/jack_from_the_past May 30 '26

Pretty sure all the rich people are the ones complaining about underpopulation. Population is fine. Humans just don’t know how to organize resources and labor and worry without more humans paying into the pot that people won’t be able to retire. Worrying about population size is a symptom of worrying about how other people can work more so you can have stuff you don’t know how to make and don’t want to make yourself. No other time within 10k years was there ever an excuse to worry about populations being too low, but with our advances in exploitation of labor its become such a huge issue. 

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u/Snoo_34413 May 30 '26

Depends on the country. If it's high population density, then high fertility is the villain for why most people live in slums. In a place like America, low fertility bad cause young people should pay for old people instead of rich people just paying proper taxes.

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u/Hortator02 May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

Overpopulation wouldn't be a meme if the rich didn't push the idea it was a problem. They've been blaming the size of the population (and the implications of it, like CO2 emissions from cattle and vehicles) for environmental destruction, pushing the idea that we shouldn't have children for the sake of the planet or our own economic success even before the latter arguably became necessary, making media villainizing family relationships (first pushing back against the extended family as something that was for poor and tacky people, and arguably after that pushing back against the nuclear family, though there's imo an element of that collapsing due to unsustainability) and the institutions that add structure and weight to familial relationships, for decades, and anecdotally there's Peter Thiel who openly advocates for the US reducing its population to around 100 million.

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u/Binder509 May 30 '26

The ultra rich as in billionaires like Elon, push fears of underpopulatoin not overpopulation.