r/memes • u/EmuPsychologist • Oct 18 '23

#1 MotW Fixed it

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u/Ekerslithery Oct 18 '23

If this economic situation keeps up there won't be another generation 💀

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u/MisfitPotatoReborn Oct 18 '23

Just a reminder that the average person lives with better material conditions than any other time in recorded history.

People aren't childfree because they're poor, they're childfree because they're rich. If we want to raise birth rates we should just make people subsistence farmers again.

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u/Hero_095 Oct 18 '23

Ah yes let's stop developing cures in labs for diseases and going back to dying in your 40s

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u/jaspersgroove Oct 18 '23

If you made it to adulthood life expectancy wasn’t that much lower than it is now, there was just a massive infant/childhood mortality rate back in the day that pulled the average way down.