• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Governments:

    If you want people to start having kids again, put wealth caps in place world wide. For as long as there are billionaires and millionaires that hoard all the wealth and power, leaving only scraps for us to survive, we won’t be having kids.

    Wealth caps will redistribute the wealth back to governments, who can then use it for free healthcare, free education l, even universal basic income

    Set that damned cap to 1 million dollars or something. High enough to make sure everyone can live very nicely but low enough to stop hoarding of wealth. Anything over 1 million? To taxes!

    Once wealth is nicely spread around again, you’ll see, people will start having kids again because now they have a life, resources, and joy in life.

    • uniquethrowagay@feddit.org
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      5 months ago

      Make it symbolically high like 10 million dollars. Make sure everybody understands that nobody they know will ever be affected by the cap and even if, they’d still be filthy rich

  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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    All we did was create an economy where no one has the time or money for kids… why is no one having kids!?

  • Kennystillalive@feddit.org
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    I will start thinking of having kids, when goverments start taking global warming seriously and create a system, where I get to spend time with my kid without ruining myself economically.

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    “Procreation is creating one more human who is going to pollute and consume. It is a secondary reason for me, but I have friends who are clear they do not want children because of that,” he added.

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    5 months ago

    Isn’t false paternity a big issue there? Their ban on paternity tests isn’t going to make men more comfortable starting families.

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      4 months ago

      Why should it be a problem? Contrary to popular online believes, most people and also most women are not cheating in their relationships. And many of those who do are also clever enough to use some protection.

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        4 months ago

        Because, you said it yourself. Popular belief. It doesn’t matter what reality is in this scenario. The government wants people to form families. So they should remove any perceived barriers. If there is a popular belief that false paternity is an issue, making testing illegal sends the wrong message. Marriage is declining in the US as well, and a lot of it is due to people feeling like it’s not worth the risk.