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this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
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The notion that a decreasing population is a capitalism issue is straight childish. First-world demographics are going top heavy fast. And for all the cries that, "They just want more workers!", I say, yes, that would be the point.
The more advanced a society is the larger the population needed just to keep people fed and housed, regardless of the system.
This is why agriculture was a trap. It let us have more people which led to needing more people to support the population.
You made the case for the inverse - agriculture had many more kids while technological advances are leading to fewer over time
I’m saying that there’s a minimum viable population for a technological society like ours and if we have too few people working it’s going to collapse.
Maybe it should collapse. Survival of the fittest applies just as well to societies and economic systems. If capitalism is so comically dysfunctional that it cannot even provide people enough that they feel comfortable having kids...when reproduction is the most natural, biologically fundamental thing in the world? Yeah, that is clearly a sick and depraved system that doesn't deserve to continue to exist on this Earth. Let it fall.