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New Study: Global Fertility Rate Decline Now Linked Directly to the Commodification of Housing (medium.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/53484820

If you scroll to the bottom of the article, they post their sources, including studies published in peer reviewed journals. I'm sure most of us see this headline and go, "Duh," but here we have hard data. Every time our billionaire and political overlords wring their hands about birthrates, the collective response from all of us should be, "fuck you, pay me, or kick rocks."

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

I'd also bring in the ripple effect of this. We know there's not enough children being born.

There's not going to be a workforce to pay our pensions when we get old. I'm less likely to spend my money on a dependant, when I should be buying property as a commodity so that I can have means to live at old age.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

The flip side is that assuming we have continued rise in productivity, there should be more to go around between less people. So we don’t need more wealth or resources, just better ways to distribute them. Wealth taxes are already being proposed in lots of places. UBI is also proposed in lots of places too. We need less billionaires, not forced childbirth.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago

Hadn't considered that! I'm already middle-aged with two small children, too late for me.