• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Today, the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone as a 65-year-old man. Our girls are hitting puberty six years early, and that’s bad, but also our parents aren’t having children.

    Let’s practice some critical thinking. Join me!

    Teens have half the sperm count of a senior citizen? I’d maybe believe they’re equivalent? Maybe? He’s getting this from dropping teen pregnancy rates.

    Teens have half the testosterone of a senior citizen? Boolshit on it’s face. So senior men are more aggressive, more horny, stronger and hairier than teens? Stronger bones too! Also, seniors have more zits. Are you teen boys even trying any more?!

    Parents aren’t having children. OK. I’ll let the audience stew on that one a minute.

    We are below replacement right now. That is a national security threat to our country…

    True! Not so much a security threat as an economic threat, maybe the same difference? So what’s the solution? Kick out the foreigners? Hey yo, Japan! How that working out?

    Money says these idiots do what Russia did about their shrinking birth rates. National holiday to stay home and fuck for the Motherland! (Not even joking here.)

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      9 days ago

      Our replacement rate has been low for a long time, but our population has stayed relatively steady… because of immigration.

      Low replacement rate is only bad if you’re racist/xenophobic. Otherwise there’s usually (in a supposedly first-world country) an easy solution.

      And if you think this is a dig on specifically the US, it isn’t. Japan and South Korea are about to have insane difficulties with a very obvious and simple solution, and the US had that solution and are destroying it in favor of racism and xenophobia.

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        9 days ago

        I don’t think immigration is bad, but if the “problem” of fertility below replacement is caused by the other problem of people who might otherwise want kids not being able to have them because of economic constraints, focusing on solving the first problem by importing competitive and ambitious skilled professionals seems at least kind of questionable.

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          8 days ago

          That is not the problem. Population declines as countries move to first world status, and I think the people not having kids due to financial constraints are few and far between. Otherwise population would not start and continue diminishing as an area becomes more affluent. People have less (or no) kids because they don’t want kids, don’t want a bunch of kids, and can reasonably expect the kids they have to survive to adulthood. And access to birth control, education, and other opportunities (mostly for women) makes having less kids (by their own desire) possible.

          So bringing capable workers in means they pay into taxes that support the aging and school-age population, and never had to have their school-age years paid for. They’re a productive member with half the cost over their lifetime.

          It’s a no-brainer… as long as you’re not worried about changing the… shade or hue… of your population over time.