Why falling birthrates might be a bigger deal than dominants narratives imply
...maybe if didn&#x27;t work so hard to make our socity into a hypercompetitive hellhole <i>intelligent</i> and <i>educated</i> people would <i>also</i> start having more children! Give people guranteed free life-time education from daycare to university + some standard of free universal healthcare (sure, you&#x27;ll have to pay for your antiaging, but not for a broken leg!) and more people will enjoy having more children. Maybe engineer the world so that people who choose to &quot;chill t f out&quot; can still enjoy both wealth and security because we <i>do generate surplus value</i> no matter what some people want to make you think. Just prevent some people from overconsuming at the same time that we prevent other from overproducing and give social climbing advantages to <i>less</i> competitive and workaholic people.<p>One reason why I&#x27;m 100% for a mildly-socialistic world government thinggy putting some brakes on mindless growth and eavening things out - handing extra child care support to educated people in helthy societies and contraception to the others. Instead we have a global kabal that manufactures scarcity all over the place, and wars in some even less lucky places, and instead of family planning we have... wars, disease &amp; famine. No idea why we&#x27;ve made these tradeoffs as a species!<p>Some of the &quot;economical and technological growth&quot; in our societies and economies is really <i>not the right kind of growt</i> (it&#x27;s more like &quot;cancerous growth&quot;), and some mild redistribution plus hitting the breaks a bit would allow for a more <i>thoughtful</i> type of development so that we can handle safely the transmission of human intelligence and values to bio-humanity&#x27;s descendents when that comes sooner or later...