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Re:Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction by Thorentis on Monday December 02, 2019 @08:37PM (#21689122)
> People don’t not want kids.

I'm not sure which Gen Z's you've spoken to recently, but the next generations certainly want kids much less than previous generations. And this trend will only continue. We have seen family sizes continually drop, until now the average is about 2. That will soon drop below 1 where most people do not have children. Give it 30-40 years max.

Re:Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction by rtpg on Monday December 02, 2019 @11:37PM (#21689957)
again, this narrative falls flat against empirical evidence that policies that support child care increase birth rates!

If you only care about population decline, you have an easy to undrestand tool for solving this problem, that doesn't involve trying to establish cultural hedgemony to try and convince everyone that they have to have at least 2 kids each.

Re:Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction by stormbrew on Monday December 02, 2019 @09:50PM (#21689478)
If it continues at the current rate by 2060 people will all want to murder 1 person! By 2100 every person will massacre an entire small village!

People have been predicting the imminent demise of civilization from lowering birth rates for an awful long time.

Re:Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction by badpun on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @07:57AM (#21691891)
When did such prediction start to become popular?
Re:Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction by hellllllllooo on Monday December 02, 2019 @10:12PM (#21689578)
Even if this is true (which I don't believe based on your anecdotal evidence about Gen Z who max out at age 24), why is it bad?
Re:Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction by narag on Monday December 02, 2019 @08:55PM (#21689215)
I'm confused. How is what you say opposed to "people don't want kids"?
Re:Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction by hnick on Monday December 02, 2019 @09:14PM (#21689331)
They were responding to "don't not want" (as in, do want), not "don't want".
Re:Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction by Rebelgecko on Monday December 02, 2019 @09:15PM (#21689340)
they're responding to "people don't not want kids"
Re:Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction by narag on Monday December 02, 2019 @09:47PM (#21689467)
Thanks to you and hnick. I'd never seen that kind of double negation.

Actually I think people acts according to circumstances. Kids are a blessing and a burden at the same time, always have been, and some other factors helps decide.

But unwanted pregnancy is not "a help to decide" and it's weird to say that the fate of civilization should rest in people being unable to have safe sex.

Low birth rates are only seen as a problem in the context of race or nation: "if we don't reproduce, our genes/our culture will disappear and foreigners will replace us". Globally there's no problem at all. When low birth rates extend to the whole planet, the problem will solve itself very quickly by elemental incentives.