• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    It turns out that when people are whinging about “population decline” it’s actually a code word for “we’re afraid people aren’t having enough white babies.” It’s almost always a racist dogwhistle.

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      22 days ago

      whinging

      British person detected

      How’s life going across the pond? I heard one of the parties for parliament wants to rejoin the EU

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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        21 days ago

        For what it’s worth, I use whinging occasionally (I see it as a more specific term than simply “complaining” or “whining”), and I’m a unitedstatesian

  • Voytrekk@sopuli.xyz
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    22 days ago

    The biggest issue with population decline is generally an aging population. The older generations will require care, which we will not have the population to do.

    The other issue is the ruling class is trying to replace good jobs with AI, keeping our wages for manual labor jobs low. Those end up bring harder to automate and have lower wages, so the incentive isn’t there yet.

    • Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      An easy problem to fix with some planning. Incentivize more healthcare professionals by giving better wages and subsidized room and board while in school.

      • Zarobi@aussie.zone
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        22 days ago

        Go back to ye olden hospitals with a guaranteed living quarters ward for hospital staff and I’m pretty sure they would triple applicants just for the housing stability

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      21 days ago

      As part of the last large generation (Millennial-Gen Z whatever) just let us die. Don’t give us care. Fuck that. We fucked shit up, let us go.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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      22 days ago

      That’s why we all import new slaves, as our own slaves don’t wanna breed anymore. And the new slaves are even more docile and less demanding, how awesome!