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Putin encourages Russians to have sex at work amid falling birth rate (indianexpress.com)

submitted 2 months ago by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 320 points 2 months ago (17 children)

News flash for wealthy authoritarian parasites around the world, because you all seem ignorant of this fact:

Declining birthrates are a direct result of the simple fact that more people all the time decide that they have no desire to bring children into this world, and that in turn is a direct result of the fact that you've turned this world into a warped, corrupt, toxic, authoritarian shithole.

You have no one to blame but yourselves.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

I disagree. There's a lot of reasons why people don't have children, including:

emotional devastated youth (abandoned by parents, addicted to smartphones, misunderstood by society)
people can't find partners for this reason
too much stress from too much work
wages are barely keeping up with inflation, and I project they will in fact not keep up in the long term in the US due to missing labor protections and decreasing demand for labor.
rising cost of living because politically, nobody really cares about the population.

edit: sorry i realized i made these points US-specific but you were talking about russia, sorry.

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

No - actually I was talking worldwide. Russia's just a notable example.

And I would say that all of the things you listed are, directly or indirectly, consequences of the fact that wealthy authoritarian parasites have warped societies to their benefit regardless of the harm done to others, so are actually examples of exactly what I'm talking about.

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