Progressive Politics

About birth rates, I just know my perspective, logistics is my thing, so I have a finger on the pulse of what makes the world function the way it is.

We could absolutely do with less resource consumption, but we didn't get to this level overnight, so if we fell suddenly back to pre-industrial population levels any faster than rates are going now, it will be catastrophic, and then we have all the same issues over again. When there aren't enough young people to man the services and production sectors, people go to the grocery store and don't have eggs and bread suddenly, or they become prohibitively expensive, and then we have worried populations doing the same thing they did when the 2024 elections rolled around and the price of eggs was $15 bucks for a dozen, and people clenched up and voted for the loud mouth promising "radical change" over the status quo.

We will likely have a preview of how bad it can get with South Korea, they've passed a point of no return and to recover population levels to a functional level they would have to have every capable woman in the country have something like five kids, and all those kids would have to have five kids. And they're currently overrun with the same social strain we have here between genders, again mostly manufactured by toxic media influencers as you touched on.

I have some hope for the US as we seem to be broadly finally rejecting some of the male insecurity grifters finally, and the up-and-coming generation seems to be more critical of these entities and their followings.

But that's just one of many issues that seem to be intersecting in the medium-term future that we will have to navigate. Climate change, migrations, water access, economic strain on supply chains, surveillance states and the coming age of techno-feudalism that it doesn't look like we're going to avoid.