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[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

A shitty life situation has never stopped anybody from having kids. Quite the opposite, the less educated a society and the lower the prospect of comfort, the more kids people have. Poor and miserable people fuck for fun and don't care about proper contraceptives, resulting in more kids. Further more, people believe that the more kids you'll have, the more likely it is that one of them is going to end up rich and successfull.

[–] parrhesia@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Generational-wise, we are having less children then the previous. That's the point of the comic.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

That's because people are actually more educated than ever at least in part thanks to the internet. In most places the standard of living has actually gone up, in some cases quite drastically. So people are more comfortable. A lot of the doomerism stuff doesn't take into account any of the awful stuff that happened in the past, and most are only focused on the USA which is having weird problems at the moment. In most of the world the material wealth of the average person has gone up, not down.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

the less educated a society and the lower the prospect of comfort, the more kids people have

Yes, by instinct. And the more educated they are, the more they can make informed decisions.

In that sense, keeping children uneducated is rape by extension.