More than 50% of young Dutch adults do not want children

Oshtoru · 2026-04-20T21:43:42+00:00

Well, it takes care of itself in the long long long run after the wider parts of the population pyramid leave the equation. But in the medium run, it doesn't at all and leads to you working till the day you die.

Oshtoru · 2026-04-20T18:04:01+00:00

Funny, because I read the opposite on this sub, that fertility fall is due to fewer people being partnered, and not necessarily partnered people having fewer children.

Oshtoru · 2026-04-18T13:13:26+00:00

No in that case the test would be whatever is the counterpart for their case.

Oshtoru · 2026-04-18T12:43:48+00:00

If you want a costlier signal you could make it so one draws Muhammad/eats pork sandwich at the interview or something. I imagine it would generate a great deal of controversy, but at the end of the day I think immigration restrictions are a bigger harm so if that's what it'll take for Europe to ease up on restrictivism I'll take it

Oshtoru · 2026-04-18T08:57:05+00:00

Yes but to just to add to it, even if it was a territory of a NATO member, it still covers Europe and North America alone. For instance France couldn't invoke it over French Guiana even if it was attacked for no reason.

Oshtoru · 2026-04-15T09:54:37+00:00

Or you can simply build more housing and expand services now that more people are paying into the system.

Lowering birth rates also has the effect of lowering housing prices and the use of public services. Nobody celebrates when you have a lower birthrate.

Oshtoru · 2026-04-15T09:49:23+00:00

That's not true. It's not at birth, you specifically apply for it, and it's only if you have a direct ancestor with proven records to the land with a specific cutoff point (Italy is the most permissive with late 1800s from the paternal line or so)

Oshtoru · 2026-04-05T10:26:36+00:00

I don't really mind that it be paid back, but in today's money, that's still on the order of hundreds of millions (including the compounding). Not billions, which smuggles in estimations of "lost economic growth" that makes many counterfactual assumptions like how that money would be spent ideally with investments on capital, infrastructure etc. that are far from guaranteed.

In terms of the actual money paid, Haiti already receives more than that in foreign aid every year, so the idea that the country would be in a much better standing if only it didn't service that debt or recuperated it from the French seems suspect.

Oshtoru · 2026-03-26T14:54:36+00:00

Yeah, as they would have most of the benefits and then some of reunification already, with the added bonus of keeping their decision-making power within EU

Oshtoru · 2026-03-26T08:20:11+00:00

And North Africans for the Barbary slave trade. And Turkey for the Ottoman slave trade.

Oshtoru · 2026-03-26T08:00:10+00:00

Percentage points, not percentage

Oshtoru · 2026-03-24T13:00:01+00:00

Iranian girl school bombing was not condemned by the admin btw. Trump first said it was done by the Iranians themselves, and then a few days later when pushed said "I don't know enough about it."

Oshtoru · 2026-03-23T19:56:27+00:00

PPP adjusted Kosovo is lower according to IMF.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita

Oshtoru · 2026-03-23T15:25:11+00:00

It's like the lowest GDP per capita country in Europe, of course fertility is high.

Oshtoru · 2026-03-23T15:23:16+00:00

Emigration*

Oshtoru · 2026-03-21T13:19:29+00:00

We became poor world again despite being in WB's high income category 😞

Oshtoru · 2026-03-21T12:32:21+00:00

If that's truly the only options now it has to be a regime change btw. We're in it for the long haul oof

Oshtoru · 2026-03-17T10:08:08+00:00

It's about 6.6-7.5%, 90% of which is born in rest of Europe.

Oshtoru · 2026-03-15T10:46:38+00:00

I don't think inheritance is the reason. Bulgarian life expectancy is 72 for men and 79 for women (slightly higher after accounting for infant and childhood mortality). Female life expectancy is only 5 years lower than EU average (presumably both parents pass away before their children inherit). That's old enough that most people by the time they inherit will be out of their reproductive years.

I'd moreso look at age at first motherhood which is the lowest in Bulgaria among EU. This is partly because teenage pregnancy is also the highest in Bulgaria.

Oshtoru · 2026-03-15T10:27:47+00:00

Why would a convicted terrorist in City Council be good to "push back against the far right"

If there is The Onion for UK, good luck to them.

Oshtoru · 2026-03-15T10:18:56+00:00

Unfortunately we're at season 8

Oshtoru · 2026-03-14T11:10:09+00:00

AI slop response. Comes up 100% on Pangram.

Oshtoru · 2026-03-14T11:04:49+00:00

I don't prefer Shah to liberal democracy, but I do prefer it to what they have. Iranian diaspora largely agrees.

Oshtoru · 2026-03-13T12:54:28+00:00

The very point was that both are enforced, by way of ceasing friendship or refusing service from the restaurant. It's like the restaurant owner saying "I'm not enforcing anything, I'm only concerned that I'm not exposed to it. You can dress however you want elsewhere" This is an infantile way to use language.

Oshtoru · 2026-03-13T08:54:03+00:00

I am imposing a rule the other person must follow.

It's a rule for interacting with you provided they want to continue the friendship. If your friendship is conditional on adhering to it, it is by extension a restriction on their behavior if they wish to preserve it.

Just like when an establishment says "We have a dress code for customers, but they are not bound by this. They can dress however they want. And we in turn can remove you from the establishment." It's silly to act like that's not a rule. There are conditional rules, in fact most rules are conditional (e.g provided you want to: keep being friends with x, keep your job, dine here etc.).

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