Whereas previous economic shocks such as the oil crisis of 1973 caused a temporary dip in fertility, the 2007-2008 banking meltdown was different because birth rates continued to decline even after the economy started growing again, says to Daniele Vignoli, professor of demography at the University of Florence in Italy. He believes the turbulence a decade and a half ago marks the point at which people’s uncertainty about the future began to take hold.
Yeah, even if inflation stays steady at 2.5 percent, the value of your money halves in the span of 25 years. Wages are locked in harder than my phone to my WiFi when I leave the house and politicians be like: “Why won’t people procreate anymore?” If any if them had an experience outside the 10% of which they are part, they’d be signing a UBI law over night
So like Japan?
The world is burning, wars are raging, microplastics in our bodies, fascist are gaining power, depression is a staple for internet culture.
I don’t know what it could be. /s
Fascists are gaining power because the left could not offer a viable response to the majority concerns. And it sounds like what’s left of it is just giving up unfortunately.
Fascists are gaining power because they are put there by radicalizing conservatives and businesses in particular media businesses consolidating their power and happily pushing fascist propaganda to sow divide among poor people. Also it distracts from the perpetuators of problems, by giving scapegoats.
The left has plenty viable responses. It is just that they cannot lie about the world changing and requiring to adapt. Something fascists and their conservative enablers happily lie about and the worse it gets the more they brainwash people into blaming the left, the green, the immigrants, the jews, anybody but the businesses and politicians destroying the world for some more profit.
