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 “Everything you read makes sense if you simply translate ‘experts’ as ‘crazy people’.”

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 Crazy people love to show off their mental gymnastics 
 People pushing for everyone to have more kids are calling for a ponzi scheme. This is a weird choice of "experts say" to call out since this is true. 

All of the current tax and economics system is a ponzi and having more kids than the previous generation every time is the only way it remotely works.

All of the reproductive rights fight has nothing to do with caring about or hating women. Women are just in the way of their plan to grow the population.

Note that the party that claims to support reproductive rights for women is also for unlimited immigration. They just attack the same problem of population growth a different way. 
 Unless those kids are bitcoiners? 
 Have kids if you want, or not if you want. The only people who should be allowed to pressure you either way are your wife and the two potential grandmother's. 
 Well, it's really pretty simple. Countries like Japan are already seeing it. In the next fifty years Japan will have more elderly and retired citizens than any other group. The economy regards retired individuals as a burden, and as a result so do we as individuals, because capitalism. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ 
 Their economy and currency is also likely first to collapse of the first world nations. Coincidence? The conditions that most make your government desperate for you to crank out kids also most make people scared to have kids. 
 It's a machine we didn't develop that we're forced to either live with or let die. 
 I auto-translate it to 🤡🌎 
 Replacement rate is just a nonsense concept, right? Right? 🙄😂 
 Interesting concept, sure. The whole thing presumes there is a correct number of humans to have and that it is >= the current number. I don't make that assumption and don't see any reason I should. Change the number up or down by force and we're enemies. People just individually choosing not to have kids doesn't really have any moral value. 
 What are you referring to by changing that number by force? 
 Rape, murder, taking away people's options to control their own destiny and body. 
 Having kids and raising them is now a Ponzi? Hell why can't ppl see these obvious lies?