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
I think it’s supremacists projecting their WHITE REPLACEMENT fears onto others
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
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.
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.
This should be a non-issue, or even an opportunity, but it’s a complete crisis for capitalism. As a society we need rapidly decrease the carbon emissions from our buildings. This means electrification of utilities, but more importantly it means reducing the heating/cooling load of buildings. This would require a massive building campaign of new homes, depressing the price of existing homes across the board. Then once population demographics have shifted enough to begin depressing the price of homes on their own, begin systematically destroying the older housing stock.
