Everybody knows what needs to be done. Parenthood needs to be sustainable for the parents. There’s just no political will to implement a policy that will only start paying off in 20+ years. Every politician kicks the can down the road, or implements half-hearted policies.

Edit: Just realised I posted this to the wrong instance comm 😅

  • tankfox@midwest.socialEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Infinite growth is absolutely possible as long as it’s combined with regular terrifying contraction and reduction; When growth slows down, engineer genocide until there’s plenty of room to grow. It’s a long embraced human tradition.

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      9 months ago

      I think that globalised megacorporations make this sort of chainsaw growth less feasible over time, since you can’t extract surplus value from dead people. That wasn’t a big deal before because corporations were mostly restricted by country/government, but now they’re basically everywhere.

      [inb4: this does NOT mean that globalised megacorporations are against genocide. Far from that - it’s just that they’d rather order their governments to engage in genocide in other situations. Such as megacorpo turf wars.]