The world isn’t having enough babies and that demographic shock will reshape the largest economies in the next decade.
  • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    88•6 months ago

    Infinite growth is an absolutely insane bar to set for the economy.

    The lowered birthrates are because we’re getting ground into dust - my engineering team of twenty millennials has two folks with kids and two folks who openly plan on having kids… we’re aging out of the window and it’s not that we’re trying and failing - most of us just don’t want a fucking family. We’re too fucking busy already.

    • Punkie
      42•6 months ago

      Mental health never being addressed, so we’re also too tired.

      • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        13•6 months ago

        “Burned outs just another word for not taking your bosses shit” - sing it to the tune of Me and Bobby McGee.

      • sunzu
        2•6 months ago

        I got an hour long seminar at 12, wagie!

        We will fix u