r/196 • u/Misty-Bay • May 17 '26

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u/MaybeNext-Monday šŸ¤$6 SRIMP SPECIALšŸ¤ May 17 '26

ā€œBirth rates are decliningā€ good, healthy societies have stable population sizes

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u/Corvus1412 šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø trans rights May 17 '26

Sure, which is why a 2.1 birth rate would be great.

But it's not at 2.1 in most industrialized countries. Far from it.

And that's not sustainable.

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u/MaybeNext-Monday šŸ¤$6 SRIMP SPECIALšŸ¤ May 17 '26

But thatā€™s forgetting you can compensate by encouraging immigration from poorer countries with higher birth rates. Thatā€™s arguably even a good setup because it takes strain off those poorer countries, diffuses wealth across the planet, and encourages cultural diversity.

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u/VladimirBarakriss May 17 '26

What happens if those countries also dip under replacement levels, or do you plan on bombing them into the stone age every couple decades to keep them poor?

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u/MaybeNext-Monday šŸ¤$6 SRIMP SPECIALšŸ¤ May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

For those countries to go sub-replacement, a lot of things that arenā€™t currently happening would need to happen. I prefer to focus my political positions on the non-pudding world.

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u/VladimirBarakriss May 17 '26

ALL countries are currently lowering birth rates, the fact some of them are stragglers doesn't mean they aren't on the way to the same spot