• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    Problems with this theory:

    • Japan is even more affected by this phenomenon of low birth rates.
    • Not even normies are reproducing.
    • The real problem is more complicated.
    • OP is a f…
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    People in this thread talking about population issues and I ‘m just here wondering how they knew how to make more sexually attractive rabbit sex toys.

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    Somehow I think the people who are fucking pillows with a picture of a fake girl on them… don’t have a high reproductive opportunity cost

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      Yeah, it’s more like people making anime girl body pillows saw a market of desperate lonely people they could exploit than a plot to prevent anon from finding their true love.

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    I think humanity should go extinct anyway and avoiding having children seems to be a peaceful way to do so. The more we breed the more we perpetuate the agony of existence.

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      Cost is like, towards the end of the list of why I wouldn’t have kids. It’s certainly there, but number 1 would probably be something like “I would never forgive myself for bringing another life into this shitty world unsolicited”.

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        if you have so much money why do you think the world is so shit? legit question.

        like, just go spend it and enjoy it.

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          Well, if you could point out to me where I said I “have so much money”, that’d be great.

          Otherwise one of us is going to look like an idiot.

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            if you can afford a child with minimal impact to your lifestyle, you are quite wealthy.

            childcare is like 2-3K a month, for that to not substantailly impact you, i would assume your take home is northwards of 10K+ a month, which means you’re making close to 200K+. which is often the income bracket at which having children is not a life-style altering choice.

            for most folks, having a kid is so expensive it completely alters their lifestyle.

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                implying children aren’t a financial burden implies you’re wealthy.

                the original post says ‘cost’ and the other person goes ‘cost isn’t a reason for me’.

                so i go ‘ok how much do you make that cost isn’t a reason for you?’ because the legit reason for the vast majority of folks, is the cost. they can’t afford kids, so they don’t have them.

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              Nah, that’s crazy, I said cost would be towards the bottom of my list. Because there are a lot more, better reasons.

              And then I said “number 1 would probably be something like “I would never forgive myself for bringing another life into this shitty world unsolicited”.”

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          You can enjoy life if you abandon empathy. I’m enjoying the best nightclubs but I walking past a bunch of malnourished and un housed individuals does bring something to think about the whole night

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            feeling bad for homeless people isn’t empathy. it’s pity.

            it’s really more about you stoking your own ego.

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                I don’t, because I don’t like being around people who jerk themselves off about how empathic they are for feeling bad for poor people on the street. Just like I don’t like folks who jerk themselves off about how amazing they are and who talk in absolute and hyperbole.

                which is, a large percentage of the userbase here, for sure. according to like 40% of the users here, nobody has ever suffered as they have, and nobody is more empathic to the plight of the unfortunate as they are. and yeah, why the fuck would anyone want to be friends with those people… well probably other people like them so they can jerk each other off about how they use Linux and they’re saving the world from billionaires by doing so.

                weirdly enough, my friends and I in the real world, volunteer in our communities and do shit that helps homeless folks. I’ve literally helped homeless people apply for jobs. But apparently that means i have no empathy, because I’d rather help folks directly than walk home from the bar drunk and feel bad for them… weird!

                almost as if the cure to feeling sorry for yourself and that the world is shit… is going out there and improving it, and not being a whiny miserable cunt of a person who jerks themselves off about how great they are online, or at the bar. because there are plenty of folks like that at the bar too.

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      It’s also a personal choice. No, I’m not talking about a person being gay, but a lot of people don’t mind being single. Or if they are partnered, they choose not to have any children. I personally fall in the former category.

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        I’m single and pretty much every single woman I met doesn’t want kids. They just want to spend their money on travel and restaurants and they think kids, or even pets, will take away from that.

        I don’t get it, but I’m also not on social media hours a day watching influencers who glorify traveling and michelin star restaurants as the pinnacle of human achievement.

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          I fully understand why no one would want to willingly subject themselves to the current state of women’s healthcare.

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            they aren’t poor. they are rich. they have the best healthcare and the best hospitals in the friggin’ world. literally, the best hospital for maternity in the entire USA is about a 15m drive from my home.

            your point would only make sense if it was in a rural area, which indeed, have awful healthcare outcomes.

            their issue is not healthcare access. it’s that they spend 50K a year traveling and think it’s unfair and awful and they want to spend closer to 500K a year traveling, and the idea of having to like, only travel twice a year and have a kid is unfathomable awful to them.

            meanwhile all my friends who have kids, don’t travel at all and don’t go out to expensive restaurants. funny that.

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        The world is only doomed if you’re poor.

        If you have a few million in the bank, it’s great and going to get even better.

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          In some ways sure, but our current ecological trajectory is pointed towards issues even fabulous wealth will only be able to mitigate.

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            it’s not, but keep telling yourself that because it makes you feel smart and important, no doubt.

            we will invent better crops dude. humans are incredibly successful at adapting to changing climate conditions, it’s the reason our species is all over the fucking planet, even in the harshest environments.

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    People turn to escapism because they are struggling to make connections in the outside world, not the other way around.

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      What if I don’t turn to escapism, but also don’t make connections… because both are really weird and boring?

      And I just kinda chill out with my dog and cook a lot and learn shit. folks ask me what I’m up to lately and i’m like ‘oh I’m taking professional cooking classes and getting yelled at by chefs and making awesome food!’ and they slowly back away.

      sometimes i wonder if being a weeb would be more socially acceptable.

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    I already had two kids and let me tell you 7 years with their mother really took a toll on me. I happily fap to anime chicks now with a clean conscience I am done with real women.

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        Gonna egde myself to anime chicks for a few hours tonight. Hoping to go at least four hours, but will definitely go more than two. Gonna blast ropes over my shoulder and splatter the cum-wall behind me.

        Want to know even more?

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          No, I want to edge to your ex wife abusing you. Nothing gets me hotter than a miserable middle aged woman resenting the men in her life as worthless pieces of shit.

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    Yes, the ruling class wants to reduce the global population, which is why the ruling class is also constantly talking about how we need to increase birthrates.

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      i mean ruling class // basic economics

      lots of old people + more pensions + more healthcare costs + less young people working = young people pay more taxes + work harder for less = a bad thing

      outside of some techno fantasy solution where robots care for the elderly (how dystopian in itself) having more old people than young people is never a good thing

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        But it’s good for the current old people that can exploit the labor of a larger young population and then die before they have to deal with the fallout.

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      Who is the “ruling class” in this context? Governments, billionaires, someone entirely different? Because I think you’ll find it might not be the same people doing each of these things…

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    I don’t think that’s why people aren’t reproducing. I also think it’s probably okay if maybe Earth just wasn’t meant to have 9 billion people on it.

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        Food isn’t everything, we’re overusing resources in other spaces too; People don’t really want to slow down on electrical consumption, travel or general waste/plastics

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          It’s not so much overusing as wasting. Capitalism has lead to an overproduction of low quality garbage that ultimately ends up in landfills. Fast fashion brands that produce more low quality clothing than they can sell, just for unbought good to end up in landfills. Food that is thrown away because there’s a surplus that can’t be sold because it doesn’t meet particular standards despite being perfectly edible.

          We could optimise processes, make waste and overproduction the more expensive alternative. We don’t, however, because it’d lead to lower profits and we hold up profits above all else.

          The average person doesn’t really need to travel less. A family of 2-4 people commuting by jet with another ~100 passengers once or twice a year is going to have way lower emissions than say, Elon Musk, Taylor Swift, or fucking Linus Techtips.

          Sure, individuals can change their habits, and in large swathes it will make things better. But it won’t fix anything, because the problem was never the average person. The problem lies with corporations and the mega rich. They’re the ones that need to go.

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      9-10 billion wouldn’t be a problem if our food was mostly vegan… We’d even still have space left that we could rewild.

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    Oh boy, I’m really going to do this to myself in a greenpost cummunity…

    Why would anyone want pdf files to reproduce?

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      Two things:

      1. This isn’t TikTok, you can call them pedofiles
      2. Who said anything about pedofiles reproducing?
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            I get the impression most people here haven’t actually been to 4chan at any point during their lifetime. This is, on 4chan, standard, ambient trolling that most wouldn’t even glance at twice. Here, the compounding confusion at a statement that isn’t wholly honest drew like 50 people to arms and maybe a quarter of them recognized the situation for what it is. Someone goofin’

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            Yes! Oh my God. I’ve never been so happy to be disproven. Now, next step. Does she make your amyl bottle drop to the floor, eyes rolled and tongue lolled, or do you keep the seal on while goon-scrolling for something younger?

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          1. Girl?
          2. I could list you thousands of either adult women or children who aren’t sexualized. Just because a few anime’s do, doesn’t mean all are like that. And yes, it’s only a few. Gooners are represented, but there are hundred of thousands of bl mangas and non comedy anime’s. (Not to mention manga, manhua and light novels.)
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            Girl. As in what the post refers to. You just claimed you could list thousands of examples yet didn’t list one.

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              Go to myanimelist and look at the genres like slice of life, gourmet or horror. Sure, slice of life has stuff like Kobayashi maid dragon which is kinda weird with the three children. But around it are all, to my knowledge, “normal” anime’s.

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            I dont watch anime but doesnt the majority of anime have at least one sexualised child in it?

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              that wasn’t part of your question. have you now changed it to “show me an animu you jork it to that doesn’t look like a kid”? because that’s pretty damn close to accusing every respondent of being a paedo.