• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    You can tell capitalism is super efficient and sustainable by how it totally collapses without fresh babies to sacrifice.

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      8 days ago

      Progressives have made kids useless. In the distant past they could help carry firewood or gay bales around the homestead.

      Industrial revolution fucked it up. Sure for a while you could send them down into the mines or get them sweeping chimneys but over time that got outlawed due to the increased danger these jobs involved.

      Now, why bother having kids? You can’t do anything with them. Even worse, they play games like Minecraft. You are literally spending your money for them to virtually work in the mines where they don’t bring in any money at all!

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        8 days ago

        Now, why bother having kids? You can’t do anything with them.

        You mean you can’t do anything profitable with them. Maybe people should be able to have a family for other reasons than profit

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          8 days ago

          Even without capitalism you need production, and children used to be part of that. Back then you would have as many kids as you could so that they could run your farm.

          I’m not defending the current system, but profit isn’t the only reason the birthrate is declining in so many countries.

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      8 days ago

      Its not capitalism that causes the over leveraged ponzi scheme, its the lender of last resort they call the Bank of Japan.

      In a capitalist lending system you wouldn’t get bailed out for making risky loans, so there wouldn’t be the moral hazard, or the heightened cantillon effect to profit off debt accumulation.