Late Stage Capitalism

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[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 1 point 7 hours ago (1 child)

Same as always, don't have kids you can't afford.

Younger millennial and tool until my late 20s to buy a house with my partner. I would want to be comfortable knowing I can support them as an adult as well if necessary before having them.

Largest concern by far is the mortgage, nothing else even close to compared to that as an expense. Without a mortgage we could work 3 days a month each and life would be easy.

I was unemployed for a long time after leaving school before I could find something. I don't know how to get away from that fear of what if I lose my job and can't find another one after a few years and my savings run out?

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[–] derAbsender@piefed.social 1 point 4 hours ago (1 child)

So you say with dont have kids you cant afford, poor people shouldnt have kids?

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[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 1 point 3 hours ago

Do you want a good life for them or not?

And its probably more about stability than an absolute rich/poor number. I see plenty of people throwing money away and then complain about never having any money.

Some monthly expenses I see - £250 on multiple food deliveries a week. £400 to constantly have a new car when the car they drove 3 cars ago is still working fine, while only commuting 2km to work. £80 on a phone.

Stop doing that for 18 months and you have a pretty good house deposit in most of the country.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 point 7 hours ago

Finally...why are so many people afraid to outright say it? Why sugar coat it? ALL our suffering is engineered!

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 point 13 hours ago

i think genz arnt joining in large numbers for the military, but millineals and they get consequences of it more.

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[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 1 point 13 hours ago (1 child)

you will call anything even remotely harmful to any group genocide

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[–] derAbsender@piefed.social 2 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

You will ignore any harm done to ajy group just so Things continue to seem okay?

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[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

extermination based on anything other than race/genetics is not genocide. Making their lives miserable is not genocide. driving up suicide rates in their demographics is not genocide.

These are all generally bad things but not genocide.

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[–] derAbsender@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

Okay then lets call it systemic extermination based on income and wealth, which in turn is largely based on where and to whom you were born.

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Wait... Something seems ethnic here...

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[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

then why do they keep complaining we arent having enough babies and gutting anything even tangentially related to birth control? they arent planning to genocide us they just want more dependent and disposable slaves for the profit mills.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 13 hours ago

on of my school at had a faculty said the state uni Enrollment crisis was "birth rates", no its the lack of jobs for many degrees, discouraging future students to go the schools, also the schools lack career development options.

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[–] derAbsender@piefed.social 1 point 13 hours ago* (1 child)

Because birthing is a very dangerous act and endangers the mother mortally. If you wanted to genocide someone you'd start with the children and women, with a Lack of women the men will follow suit, because of lethal competition and the aforementioned wars.

The lack of birth control is exactly exacerbating that.

With a lack of birth control it is not the amount of workers that rise, bit the amount of dead women and children during the birth process.

We are beyond the profit Phase of capitalism, they fell into AI psychosis and think they dont need us anymor, since soon AI can replace our necessity.

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[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 1 point 6 hours ago* (1 child)

Birth rates fell significantly in the late 1800s, before modern birth control was an option.

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[–] derAbsender@piefed.social 1 point 3 hours ago*

And one key factor was that kids became a financial liability.

That did not change in 200 years.

You would think if the owning class was interested in many workers that this problem wouldve been Adresse by now.

But birth rates continue to fall, while child mortally rises.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

Capitalists cannot exist without workers. They in fact need larger populations to expand valorization of capital, and to have a reserve army of labor by which they can threaten the employed workers with replacement.