• oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip
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    If you wanna increase birth rates, take 100% of all the billionaire’s money (not a “reasonable tax amount” and spread it to everyone else.

    I’m more than willing to just let them be literally penniless (and disqualified for welfare) if the world will benefit from it. And it will.

    They don’t deserve an honest living, they deserve a solitary confinement cell.

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      I’m open to them having social welfare after being stripped of their assets. I think I just expect that our prisons should provide its inmates with a humane standard of living of which they would of course have access to from their cell.

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        They can have a minimum wage job.

        And hopefully after capping them at the knees (power and influence-wise), we can move to a society that actually has universal health care, even for minimum wage.

        I’m not ok with them benefiting from what society at large has been breaking their backs to fund.

        At least not outside of an emergency. I don’t wanna actually have them die because of actual medical issues in the mean time.

        Unless they make spectacles of themselves complaining about their new station in life. That can effectively qualify them to be cut off. Sunny nobody got a right to whine about not getting to use human sacrifice to their benefit anymore.

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    20 hours ago

    Pokemon Create and every time you take a photo of a new newborn baby with the app, and send your genetic samples for verification, you have a chance to collect a rare pokemon

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      Just redirects me to the start page 😕

      Edit: Doesn’t show up in the search either, but the “similar games” do give some hint about the nature of that game

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      If it’s anything like the original, I am not sure that will solve the specific problem of declining birthrates.

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    Pokémon GO: touch grass ✅ Pokémon Sleep: touch pillow ✅ Now we just need Pokémon Rent so we can afford kids 😂

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      And here I paid for sleep as android like a rube… Better not start using Pokémon sleep, it’ll classify me somewhere between snorlax, psyduck, and goldeen.

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    The declining birthrate is a feature, not a problem to be solved. We do not need more people. Capitalism needs more people. We don’t.

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      I mean, it absolutely can become a problem if an entire population turns elderly and Theres no young people to take over businesses, care for the elderly, maintain critical infrastructure.

      Say what you want about the capitalist ideals that hold this time important,if the birthrate hit 0% we would be facing societal collapse

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        if the birthrate hit 0% we would be facing societal collapse

        Bit strawmanny that. Nobody considers 0% a reasonable target.

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          Just an extreme example, but there are actual statistics out there I cant remember where a bunch of people much smarter than me figured out the “this is an emergency” percentage,

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        That is why we need automation.

        Just not the infinite growth one from capitalism.

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        I mean… That societal collapse may be necessary at some point sooner rather than later- we need to downsize, we can chose to do it on our own terms or just run out the clock and smash into a brick wall. Maybe it’s not a bad thing.

        I’m semi serious. This isn’t working out. I don’t think so, and many with me don’t think so. We can’t keep doing things just because the system demands it, we should be doing what we decide is good and necessary first and then work towards those goals, instead of just doing more of everything and hope that it will magically turn out for the best.

        I am aware of the problem space here and the high cost and risk of dramatically changing course and our way of governing societies, but if we don’t, those problems will not be solved or diminish and we’ll have to deal with it anyway. Capitalism will not save us.

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        So what? If people decide we don’t need any more people then we surely don’t need society.

        I just hope we remember to shut the lights off when we leave.

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      Low birthrate means not enough to pay your retirement - it is not just a problem for companies - also for governments and taxes in the most socialist country.

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          Please explain how any society can work with an overweight of elderly? Watch Kurzgesagt’s video about South Korea. They are looking into a society where every other person is above 65.

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            An ethical dilemma game

            1. elders get to be alone, demented and taken care of by young people that earn little money to maintain themselves called nurses, and by a ponzi scheme for the rest of society. 1.5) in case the elder is mentally and physically fit, their needs are above a child’s
            2. we normalize end of life; reducing the number of elders vy their choice
            3. we normalize battery babies; grown and born outside of a human; orphanage++

            Reality of demographics don’t allow for another solution.