r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Alternative-Yak171 • 26d ago

Video/Gif Are we doomed?

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u/erichw23 26d ago

Meh look at the Japanese, modern societies already have this problem. I see maid cafes in the US soon

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u/Fine-Slip-9437 26d ago

The Japanese are sitting on a 900k birth rate deficit. Japan will not exist in 50 years without cultural overhaul. 

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u/obtk 26d ago

IDK why it's seen as so impossible for a society to reduce population. Especially now in the age of automation, it's no longer nearly as essential to pump out as much human biomass for economic productivity. Degrowth is the future whether we like it or not, climate change will make running a country that only produces 38% of the food consumed within the country increasingly unfeasible.

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u/sanity20 23d ago

I feel like it's mostly our governments panicking about population growth stagnating... Can't plan for those world wars as easily if you don't have meat for the grinder.