• bridgeburner@lemmy.world
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    How can there still RELATIVELY many people be able to have kids financially? The fertility rate in most european countries in comparison is lower, although we have affordable healthcare (well, compared to the US at least).

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      Why do you think they’re trying to shut down reproductive rights? They want people to have kids despite financial capability to raise them. As long as they survive growing up, they’ll labor.

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        And be raised by parents who don’t have any financial independence, ensuring they’re also in debt slavery for the rest of their lives.

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          Things feel so dystopian that I get the feeling that after they get everyone on debt slavery that they’ll put propaganda about how it’s unfair that debt is absolved on death and that your family/kids should pay for it. Fox News will be like: “why should a company’s debts just disappear? it’s unfair to the lender!”

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          Hey, someone is going to have to do all those below-subsistence jobs that the deported immigrants have been doing.

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            In an ideal world that’s what robots/AI would do. But we get the opposite; artists become unemployed whereas manual labor still continues to exist for humans.