> eventually the cycle will shift into a higher birth rate. no, they never do. this has been verified experimentally. raising children is a culture thing, passed down from one generation to the next. if you don't pass it down to the next generation (in china you couldn't, by law), then that generation never wants children. they've ended the one child policy, but can't end the one child attitude.    > the problem is that our economic system is dependent on growth. if you think lack of growth is bad, let me introduce you to "shrinking". it's world-ending. > when they have the choice and the access to wealth. they don't have wealth now. just the illusion of it. they've been eating yellow-dyed rancid, congealed vegetable oil instead of butter. can't afford real sugar in their candy. can't afford real chocolate in their candy (both hershey and nestle no longer use real cocoa butter... their stuff's just brown wax). their furniture is cardboard from ikea. they cook on aluminum foil pans coated with poison plastic. they do not have fine dishes or silverware, they eat mystery meat, they don't get to own any of the software or media that they cherish... it's all "licensed". go to home depot, go to the flooring section... there is no more wood flooring there. just cardboard shit. no one who has a net wealth of less than 8 figures has anything even resembling wealth. just tissue paper facades and illusions and make-believe. and what is the price for that garbage? extinction within 6-9 generations.
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