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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by parineum on Sunday October 01, 2023 @03:13AM (#37723511)
Even if granting you are correct in your identification of the problem, you offer no explanation of how an alternative system would work any differently.

I guess feudalism would increase fertility given that feudal lords need more serfs to tend their land.

Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by dottjt on Sunday October 01, 2023 @05:41AM (#37724312)
I don't think there is a viable alternate system. If you have a look at past history, societies and ideas and values come and go. They rise and then they collapse. This is just the way it is.

With that said if I had to propose an idea, I would provide money to people to have children. Have the state subsidise it. Provide stay at home mums with a decent income. Fundamentally however, that will create all sorts of issues, because it doesn't change the fact that money still controls society.

Fundamentally, I think the issue is that society no longer has a set of values to propel it forward. In the past, I think values were an extension of nation (and whatever culture that entailed). Now, that value is money. Which is creating all the distortions we're seeing today.