Baby boomers are adjusting to a new retirement normal: No grandchildren

[Black Mamba]

There should be a rise of political parties running with the platform of fukking over baby boomers.

 

[ogc163]

Interesting,

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

this country gonna collapse or look entirely different in our life times

 

[NegaDuck]

.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

The boomers hoarded their wealth

how did they do this?

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

i swear we will have to have centralized baby factories like in those 90s movies if we want our population to sustain itself. Both child birth and child rearing would have to be a govt responsibility when the populace doesnt care to do it itself. The only other alternative are the unethical choices of actively depressing population metrics for development, the same way we already do by purposefully creating unemployment and inflation with fed policy.







we are next breh. we arent magical black people immune to this stuff like we thought we were at the beginning of covid

we like to pretend its not a black issue but it is. its a global issue and a consequence of economic development. look at a map of hdi or gdp per capita in Africa and the carribean and notice the distinct difference between the poor failed states and the rapidly developing ones. its nothing but downward and very very predictable trajectories. \ South africa for instance is almost at the 2.1 replenishment point, the bahamas and barbadoes are are beneath it. even right here in america , despite black immigrants diluting the figure, we are slightly below the 2.1 replenishment rate and the trend is looking abysmal as education and incomes rise relative to prior black generations.


you gotta look at tge long term trends and you’ll notice that black people are slowly walking towards the same cliff whites, latinos, and asians have.


And no, govt subsidies wont fix anything as we have seen that strategy fail miserably in northern europe for the last 2 decades. we need to understand that folks just cant be bothered to gave kids beyond a certain point in human development.





i think you are on the right track here…

• ironically, i think family farming would help a lot. you would ideally want to push down the population wealth, population education, societal development if you wish to return to the old paradigm of child birth. sadly, farming does this really well.

The enemy of humanity right now is the prosperity and development we spent the 20th century desperately trying to achieve.

• i disagree with you on teaching money management. its actually counterintuitive. it only leads folks to make the extremely rational decision not to procreate, and when they do procreate; they shrewdly choose to have the bare minimum amount of children. notice how it is the folks with poor money management having the most kids on every single country and cuty on earth.

• i also agree with you that pushing college is also a bad thing for population figures. it leads to the same issue of folks choosing to not have kids or have the bare minimum amount.

this film was lowkey prophetic….
(however , rather than only the intelligent/wealthy dying off; everyone in society becomes more intelligent due to development and everyone dies off.)

Children of Men was a prophetic film. Crazy whats happening.

 

[85 East]

Not sure how white supremacists/certain FBA extremists will cope with the economic/demographic need to increase immigration in the next 10-20 years.

I can only hope more Africans are allowed to come to America.

A lot of people do not understand this. If you don't have 2.1 children for every couple, population dwindles, economy suffers, pensions dry up, and health care becomes harder to provide. Even China, Japan, and Korea will need mass immigration in the next decade or 2.

 

[Neuromancer]

People are struggling. Children are expensive. The boomers hoarded their wealth and this is the end result.

What wealth? Them nikkas ain't got no money.

 

[Neuromancer]

Who's to blame. Kids are expensive and American individualism is rampant.

 

[brickfare]

how did they do this?

Pensions (all we get is 401ks), relatively cheap housing on modest salaries (without the same crushing student loan debt)

 

[Shadow King]

Theres something interesting about this phenomenon

Becuase i can understand not having kids. Theres many many reasonable arguments against it.

But those reasons have existed for centuries.

Why has the culture shifted even with more means available for most of us.

Because "more means available" is an illusion.

 

[Shadow King]

In addition, many educated women don’t want to be single mothers. While guys have a GMB mentality. So many of the smartest women are overlooked for IG thots.

People make marriage seem horrible. Without this contract, women are vulnerable to being left shouldering major responsibility alone

 

[Gloxina]

he shaming ain't working women don't want kids, a lot care way more about independence and materialism.

It’s a little more than that lol

 

[Wild self]

Vote for neoliberals who destroy all vestiges of state subsidized public goods (post secondary education used to be cheap in the US!), thus creating a debt burdened generation with less spending power

Exacerbate the cost of living by becoming parasitic landlords who oppose rent control

Vote for federal politicians who don’t enact parental leave

Landlords, banks, and greedy higher ed institutions destroyed population growth ON PURPOSE.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

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I don’t know why but this photo got me