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What’s behind the US birth rate decline? Experts say it’s not just personal choice
(news.northeastern.edu)
Cant afford it and its a fucking dystopia so…
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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I wouldn’t feel ethical bringing someone into this failing society.
What's behind the US birth rate decline?
The Trump administration wants people to have more children.
Curiously enough, the latter points to the answer to the former.
It's not just that Trump wants Americans to have more children - all the psychopaths in power do. Because to them, people are just resources to be used up and discarded, which means they need a steady supply of replacements.
And not surprisingly, people - being actual people with hopes and dreams and fears and doubts and loves and joys and heartbreaks and losses - just aren't interested in having children who are just going to end up being resources to be exploited by a handful of fabulously wealthy shitbags.
So basically, the reason that the billionaire fuckwads want people to have more children is also the reason that people don't want to have them.
people are just resources
Trump is going to be dead well before a child born today will be old enough to do much productive work. His motivation is ideological rather than practical.
I won't spoil it, but I bet you can guess what they say would actually encourage people to have children...