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Putin encourages Russians to have sex at work amid falling birth rate (indianexpress.com)

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[–] [email protected] 318 points 2 months ago (15 children)

News flash for wealthy authoritarian parasites around the world, because you all seem ignorant of this fact:

Declining birthrates are a direct result of the simple fact that more people all the time decide that they have no desire to bring children into this world, and that in turn is a direct result of the fact that you've turned this world into a warped, corrupt, toxic, authoritarian shithole.

You have no one to blame but yourselves.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

I disagree. There's a lot of reasons why people don't have children, including:

emotional devastated youth (abandoned by parents, addicted to smartphones, misunderstood by society)
people can't find partners for this reason
too much stress from too much work
wages are barely keeping up with inflation, and I project they will in fact not keep up in the long term in the US due to missing labor protections and decreasing demand for labor.
rising cost of living because politically, nobody really cares about the population.

edit: sorry i realized i made these points US-specific but you were talking about russia, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

One point I want to add: Throughout most of human history, it was economically beneficial to have lots of children. They were your retirement plan (and cheap labor).

In most developed countries, this is no longer the case. People who want children get one or two, just to scratch the itch, but that's not enough to sustain the population (without migration).

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