Don't worry about global population collapse

Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by toomuchtodo on Saturday September 30, 2023 @01:05PM (#37717425)

Retirement communities and nursing homes are full of parents with children who do not visit them. How selfish does one must be to have children to have a retirement plan? Society cares for the childless, and we will have to learn to manage a declining population because of a population expansion everyone thought (how silly in a finite system) would last forever.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4104138-one-qua... ("One quarter of adult children estranged from a parent")

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12898 ("Parent–adult child estrangement in the United States by gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality")

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-23124345 ("New China law says children 'must visit parents'")

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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by jezzamon on Saturday September 30, 2023 @01:32PM (#37717736)

"Society cares for the childless" - across lots of different cultures, and for a lot of human history, that is/was not the case.

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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by toomuchtodo on Saturday September 30, 2023 @01:35PM (#37717757)

Sure, that's how free will works, both individually and collectively. Sometimes people go without or die alone (even if they have children or society has the means and infrastructure), and that is an unfortunate component of the human experience. Hopefully we do better but there are no guarantees. Welcome to the shit show, enjoy the ride.

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