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Re:Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for governm... by yoyohello13 on Friday December 06, 2024 @01:44PM (#42342801)
People didn’t have a choice back then. So the two options now are: “force people to have kids” or “make life better for people so they want kids”. I’d like to think we’ve evolved enough as a society to choose the later option.
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Re:Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for governm... by Ray20 on Saturday December 07, 2024 @12:22PM (#42351186)
There is no later option, actually. No matter how good life would be - people won't have more children. Prosperity in the context of fertility matters only in relative values, not in absolute values. People have a lot of children not when they are wealthy, but when they are wealthier than others, and so it always be minority, no matter how good life are.
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