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Anyone have some kind of even handed analysis on hand that explains whether or not all this panic for decades about birth/fertility rates has legs? I only ever give it a passing glance and i accidentally clicked a video the other day and it was some rightwing guy talking about some retvrn shit

I asked bc like the article states: the real problem is the price of housing. It seems to me that falling birth rates are a symptom of capitalism’s decline. However, many article writers seem to dance around that

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Yes of course it is an issue. When TFR reaches 1 for example, the next generation becomes half the size as the last one. You can’t have a healthy economy with that. There’s also every indication that more and more countries are reaching low fertility levels, and there’s no precedent that it will reverse. Social democratic childcare policies haven’t succeeded. Personally I think only socialism can achieve sustainable population levels now.

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I think it’s supremacists projecting their WHITE REPLACEMENT fears onto others

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I disagree for the most part.

I been reading these guys for a bit and they seem to be hostile toward austerity and NIMBYism so far

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To be honest, I can’t see anybody who isn’t way too worried about phenotypes and skull shapes genuinely caring about birthrates, regardless of what else they write.

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I don’t know

All I known are examples of Japan’s economic stagnation and the rise as France as the economic engine of Western Europe (highest TFR)

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Makes sense, a lot of what’s written by the authors is hostility against austerity and they promote YIMBISM and more social spending

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