Every society values status and wealth. This time we've taken that to the extreme, to the exclusion of everything else. It's going to be one of the failed experiments in history.

Ancient Greece even had those episodes where the rich managed to get farmers deep in debt. A bunch of them just left. Another bunch became serfs. The end result was productivity tanking and food security becoming problematic. Cue debt relief, changing laws, ... The rich will always fuck it up for everybody and themselves given enough time, sometimes they learn, and they do it all again a century later.

It's okay. Elon said AI and his robots will mean we'll all be rich on UBI soon, so he wants everyone to have more kids.

there's a lot of negative feedback loops in nature (it sounds negative but is actually a positive thing). it means that when you have a tendency going one way, then that creates a counter-pressure which makes the tendency go the other way.

so if people have less children today, that somehow will make it more attractive for future generations to have more children. in the end, it will oscillate (go up and down) until it stabilizes around a stable value. so no worries, it's gonna be fine.

But without children, who will fight your forever wars and be trafficked by the Oligarchs who want to create 24/7 mass surveillance with live facial recognition tracking?

It would be helpful if people added where they are from, or am I supposed that if you don't, that you're an usanian?

I would be so fucking rich without a family! I can live on ramen and gaming (I am 41, and this never changed), sobI would have like 80% of disposable income up for saving

The rich have bought out trailer parks. And the factories where they make trailers. So even going that route is being exploited.