Smartphones and a marked change to our digital media environment are part of the reason for the demographic shift changing our world, including how low birth rates are shrinking the workforce. Chief d
I once asked my parents, "Why did you create me?" We were poor, and all I experienced was hardship. I didn't want my children to ask the same question, so I didn't have any.
People can see that the systems we created and the world we built are designed purely for economic reasons. We have lost the sense of wanting people to just be human and do what makes humans happy.
Another child is another 35 years of being stuck in an office cubicle. Or worse, 35 years in a steel plant, cobalt mine or iphone factory.
If higher birthrates are needed for "workers" and we keep hearing how AI is going to replace sooo many jobs, then isn't lower birthrates a good thing as fewer people will be competing for whatever jobs are left, while ensuring there isn't a large part of the population unable to support themselves.
Why is this happening all over the world? Because the same companies have taken over the world. The same corporations are squeezing people like lemons, whether it's Poland, the US, or the Philippines.
I live in Sweden, one of the best places with the best job conditions and I say what people don't want to say, I'm tired, stressed and unsure about the future.
"Yes, we destroyed the world but in the brief beautiful moment, the shareholder value went through the roof"
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Another child is another 35 years of being stuck in an office cubicle. Or worse, 35 years in a steel plant, cobalt mine or iphone factory.
Humans aren’t designed to live like this.
- some Roman noble 2000 years ago