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In reply to the discussion: What will happen if(when?) the birthrate drops dramatically? [View all]Scrivener7
(56,793 posts)And I'm not that old. That kind of population growth is leading to catastrophic warming and pollution that will kill us all off anyway if we don't reverse it.
The concerns Evans seems to have are 1) economic and 2) social, in that she thinks women and men are not relating anymore on a meaningful level.
As far as the economics go, tax the rich. The end. Just tax the damn rich and that problem is solved.
As far as the social issues go, she is spouting the manosphere nonsense that, "Women, as they gain independence, are only going for the most eligible men." Every time I hear that, I want to say, "Show me some evidence that men, in droves, are trying to date unattractive women." Then I'll take it seriously when someone says, "80% of women go for 20% of men" as if that's a problem and as if men have not always done the same thing.
A drop in population is a benefit. The objections come from men who think they should be getting more sex than they are because their dad was nothing special and managed to get married. They want to bring back the times when women were desperate to marry because there was no way for them to make a living, so they needed to have a man to survive. Screw that.
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