As with every other “crisis” capitalism faces, the solution is simple: no more capitalism, no more crisis.
“A reduction in the share of workers can lead to labor shortages, which may raise the bargaining power of employees and lift wages — all of which is ultimately inflationary,” Simona Paravani-Mellinghoff, managing director at BlackRock, wrote in an analysis last year.
Yeah, fuck that babbling bourgeois bullshit. Fun fact though, after plague killed so many people in Europe, the surviving serfs (and their more immediate descendants) had an unprecedented level of power and agency over their living and working conditions.
I also love how the whole hand wringing they’ve been doing about China’s supposed demographics problems turned out to be pure projection once again.
The irony being that China has the tools to overcome a declining population, whereas the west is a goldbergian paperclip maximizer.
Actually the serf seeing his father dying from the plague said “ah shit this will be ultimately inflationary.”
Hold up I thought the third world was “overpopulated” and having too many children.
It’s overpopulated when the west talks about Africa, India, China, Mexico and the poors. It’s underpopulated when it talks about suburban white people who buy iphones.
>Wreck economy
>People can't afford shit
>People ditch kids
>"WhY u HaZ nO kId?/?"
very much this.
there are plenty of studies that shows a direct correlation between icreasing economic difficulties and birth rate fall in europe (and is super evident for example in france where the dismantle of the wellfare state last 15 years drop birth rate from 2.8 to 1.9 in same amount of years, process being more strong during the “Macron era”).
Of course this does not applies to a lot of countries that are not in good economic shape (in the global south) because in those countries neoliberalism and the massive individualisation of society is just present in the upper statements, while the popular classes still rely in its community, also for reproduction.
“Sorry sperm, you gotta move aside for all this micro plastics I gotta store in my balls now.”
In all seriousness, this shit is just proof overpopulation is a myth.
