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 @Rick is getting laid (off) artificial wombs (this post brought to you by technocapital enjoyers). 
 It was always going to take some frightening biotechnical solution that entailed spitting in the face of God. 
 >It was always going to take some frightening biotechnical solution that entailed spitting in the face of God.
God is all knowing, and can predict all. Yet He made women anyway, sooooo... He beat everybody to it. 
 @Rick is getting laid (off) who says it’s spitting in the face of God? There simply aren’t enough healthy wombs around. It’s this or population collapse. 
If I were emperor of Earth I would turn the situation around tomorrow, but I’m not and I can’t be in a timely fashion. Millennial women will lose their fertility before anyone can do anything about it, this is a demographic reality. How we deal with it is what matters at this point. I am against turning zoomers into breeding stumps so we may need another solution.
I think women will find partners later in life simply by debasing themselves or coming to terms with being alone, but what’s happening has never happened before in history and there is no way to avoid it on a societal scale, biology doesn’t work like that.

If we take one lesson from this, it’s that women are a resource that have to be managed. I used to think stuff like “women are property” was edgy and old laws were draconian, but they’re too valuable to be managed by themselves and frankly they can’t do it. Women can’t put the society ahead of themselves or their pursuit of pleasure and so shouldn’t be allowed to have a choice. Women fuck who they’re told to, raise the babies they’re told to, and live lives of little nobles due to their inherent value. They do domestic chores and raise kids as a reward while the men work in the mines and society functions. They won’t be asked, and they won’t be miserable.