• finitebanjo@piefed.world
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      I want to passively watch half of them die, like we are doing now, while not replacing them. Huge difference.

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      Whenever population control is mentioned, this inevitably comes up. No, not looking to “remove” anyone, just prevent more births than the natural environment can handle.

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      I mean, Thanos’ plan may have been popular if he used the infinity stones to reward mothers for limiting their children, using societal pressure and other tools to limit populations for a generation.

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        Or just limit1 baby per couple, same effect. Population halves every life cycle

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          Better ensure perfect women/men equality before doing that, otherwise it leads to a big gender disbalance and high infanticide rate for girls, as was demonstrated in China.

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            Carrot vs stick.

            Just give incentives to voluntarily have less kids. Heck, even just education, high wages, and social mobility (particularly for women) typically drops the birth rate at or under 1 child anyway.

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              They were probably referring to that, yes. But most of the issue with China was the additional requirement that only men could inherit the family wealth and title so it led to the killing of female babies and skewing of gender ratios.

              They sorted a lot of that out lately and its done wonders for their quality of life long term, but they also renegged on the whole plan and are pushing growth again.

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                The law had plot holes, just needs to be long sighted with human behavior in mind.

                What’s happening now is different story. Maybe it’ll come full circle.