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Should we all be having more kids?
« on: July 30, 2024, 08:16:17 PM »
https://www.vox.com/policy/363543/pronatalism-vance-birth-rates-population-decline-fertility

Interesting article looking at the declining birth rates around the world.
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Re: Should we all be having more kids?
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2024, 08:48:52 PM »
I've done my part with 4 kids.
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Re: Should we all be having more kids?
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2024, 09:43:54 PM »
People tend to have more kids if they are optimistic about the future.

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Re: Should we all be having more kids?
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2024, 11:07:20 PM »
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Re: Should we all be having more kids?
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2024, 11:09:45 PM »
I've done my part with 4 kids.

Back in the 80s, my wife and I were "DINKs".
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Re: Should we all be having more kids?
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2024, 11:36:45 PM »
vWait 'till the next nuke fired in anger goes off.

Within a half hour Earth's viable population will be zero or indistinguishably close to it.

"Indistinguishably" because nobody will be around who will want to do the counting. <smirk>

Antarctica might be a little safer.  There might even be someone left down there to observe:  "Gaia will out." <grin>

And in, say, 150kA, there might be two little chemical machines called bacteria which happen to collide just right and form a third chemical machine and we're off and running again. <guffaw>

And about 500kA later, somebody will do a relatively trivial calculation that reveals that if you hit a Oungleding235 nucleus with a slow fargelock it will yield a hell of a large amount of Corslagy when the Oungleding235  splits ...to the tune of

Corslagy = (mass unit) multiplied by (light speed)2

And we're off and running again. <rofl>

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Re: Should we all be having more kids?
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Re: Should we all be having more kids?
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2024, 12:03:02 PM »
We're done here, after going 2 for 4. I don't know about me but my wonderful wife has gone through the natural shutdown process, and I have no interest in any extra-curriculars.

What's the youngsters got to say for themselves?
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Re: Should we all be having more kids?
« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2024, 12:54:14 PM »
Isn't that what the environmental left wants?

In fact, don't they want ZERO children and the extinction of the human race?


I, myself, limited things to Zero kids, and to be honest, I'm thinking that was too many...
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Re: Should we all be having more kids?
« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2024, 01:51:13 PM »
We probably should, yes.  But that ship has probably sailed for most of us here.

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Re: Should we all be having more kids?
« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2024, 04:33:41 PM »
Maxed out at four kidlets years ago.  Can't make any more.
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Re: Should we all be having more kids?
« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2024, 06:52:56 PM »
It's the economy. Young people can't even find a place for themselves to live, much less contemplate having kids. My parents got married in their teens, bought a starter house for $40,000 with their secretary and factory jobs, and went on to have 5 kids. Kids today are living with their parents in their 30's and the starter houses are 400k. The housing crisis is the everything crisis.
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Re: Should we all be having more kids?
« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2024, 07:06:14 PM »
It's the economy. Young people can't even find a place for themselves to live, much less contemplate having kids. My parents got married in their teens, bought a starter house for $40,000 with their secretary and factory jobs, and went on to have 5 kids. Kids today are living with their parents in their 30's and the starter houses are 400k. The housing crisis is the everything crisis.

Not saying housing prices aren't a factor, they are, but a quick check of redfin for the bigger town 20 minutes from me shows over a dozen homes under $300k.  I'm not in Seattle but I'm only 80-90 minutes drive (in light traffic) from there. They might not be great houses, but starter houses aren't supposed to be. Interest rates are a bigger killer.  Payments on a 30 year $300k mortgage at 4% are slightly lower that $200k at 8%.

But, like housing, prices for a lot of things have risen a lot faster than wages.  My 20.4% raise when I started at my new job has been pretty well obliterated by inflation. And that's only a year later.  Well, maybe I'd need to include the prior year too.  Still, that's only 2 years.
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