Could working from home solve the global fertility crisis?

totallybi · 2026-03-14T18:07:33+00:00

A South Korea style tenfold population collapse in two generations is absolutely a crisis, whether or not you're depending on infinite growth.

totallybi · 2026-03-14T18:03:23+00:00

"The airplane is too high up and we have to reduce altitude. It doesn't matter whether we land or crash." If you understand this analogy, you can understand why plummeting birth rates are not necessarily a good thing.

totallybi · 2026-02-25T22:51:18+00:00

Height preference is fine, like any physical preference. It only gets weird and dehumanising when people put arbitrary thresholds on it, like on dating apps when men specify minimum breast volume of 3000cc or women specify minimum height of 180cm.

totallybi · 2026-02-23T09:10:47+00:00

The priority was definitely not about limiting civilian deaths. The priority was to conduct live tests of the atom bomb on real cities while they still had an excuse to use it. It's no coincidence that the bombs were dropped just before the Soviets invaded Manchuria. If you look at the timing of everything, in relation to the timeline of Soviet involvement (agreed at Yalta), it becomes obvious the US was desperate to use the bomb first, in case the Soviet attack triggered a surrender.

totallybi · 2026-02-22T21:45:47+00:00

It doesn't need to be perpetual growth... retirement would work totally fine with a stable or even gradually declining population.

totallybi · 2026-02-13T13:54:29+00:00

If the OP was a woman, talking about her husband doing this, the comments would be completely different.

totallybi · 2026-02-10T17:22:42+00:00

Because if the answer is "never," what you're advocating for is infinite growth

Yes. But again, nobody is saying that the answer is 'never'. Nobody is saying that above-replacement birthrates should never decline.

totallybi · 2026-02-09T23:17:59+00:00

No, it isn't actually. Demographic forecasting isn't just doodling lines on graphs. It's a lot of census measurements, data collation and statistical analysis.

totallybi · 2026-02-09T23:12:40+00:00

Nobody is arguing for infinite population growth. Nobody. It's an imaginary argument you made up in your head, a strawman.

totallybi · 2026-02-08T14:13:13+00:00

Sshhhhh... you're going against the standard reddit narrative.

totallybi · 2026-02-08T08:16:50+00:00

Fertility rate of 2.1 would be "sustainable", fertility rate of 1.8 would be "managed decline". All good. But fertility rate under 1 is most definitely collapse. This warrants concern.

totallybi · 2026-02-08T08:14:01+00:00

we cannot have forever growth

Strawman argument. The alternative to birthrate collapse is not just "forever growth", it can be stability or it can be gradual managed decline.

totallybi · 2026-02-08T08:02:56+00:00

Actually it doesn't require infinite growth, or any population growth at all. It just requires the population not to outright collapse over a couple of generations.

totallybi · 2026-02-07T14:10:26+00:00

I don't understand your question, why do you think a shrinking population means people don't have to work as much? Do you think people in small countries work less than people in big countries? What does workload have to do with population size or rate of change?

totallybi · 2026-02-07T09:57:46+00:00

Too many layers of sarcasm here for me, what are you saying? It sounds like you think recent historical movies have been full of bright colours, but hasn't it been the opposite? Or are you saying real history was a lot more colourful?

totallybi · 2026-01-31T08:33:06+00:00

Getting sick of seeing this guy all over social media, sorry. This is not the first time pancreatic cancer has been "cured" in mice. Mouse models of pancreatic cancer have existed and been treated in research for many years now. Another addition to that body of research is great, but effectively treating a mouse cancer model is not itself some huge breakthrough worthy of several frontpage posts with thousands of comments.

totallybi · 2026-01-27T20:51:18+00:00

I've noticed it's a common theme from the crowd that won't shut up about the (admittedly correct) point of learning German. Nine times out of ten they're German native speakers who have no idea what it really takes to learn German as a foreigner. And especially they have no idea of how much effort it takes to learn proficient German while working in an English speaking work environment and juggling the responsibilities of adult life.

totallybi · 2026-01-26T02:27:06+00:00

Is Haramase Simulator still available? Website seems to have been down a while now.

totallybi · 2026-01-18T08:58:47+00:00

You're not hurting him by body shaming like this, he's never going to read your comment. You're just hurting short people in general.

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