Content
@
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
Americans must admit that the endpoint of wealth is to have kids at lower than the population replacement rate. The only way the rich can get richer, anthropologically, is expanding market participants through a steady influx of poor people who DO reproduce above their replacement rate. Anthropologists widely document that the value proposition of childbirth (often related factors like elder care, manual labor, and population survival) is inverse to wealth. This is why Japan and South Korea are desperate for poorer immigrants. Their population is prosperous. This is also why Germany, France, the U.K. and the U.S. have needed poor immigration to expand wealth, contrary to public xenophobia or leader invocations of “sh**hole countries.” Rich residents opposing low-income housing are self-defeating. Developed countries technocratically impoverishing poor ones through currency manipulation, then titrating poverty immigration, is the only way to maintain wealth and capitalist “growth”mythology.
12 replies
15 recasts
52 reactions
Stuart
@olystuart
I'll be honest this makes zero sense to me 😅
1 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
“People make fewer kids as they get rich which shrinks society, so the world is a giant poor-breeding plantation to supply just enough immigration to rich places so the fake simulation of endless economic growth doesn’t break from population shrinkage” Is that clearer? 🤪
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
Stuart
@olystuart
I guess what I'm reading from the original post is that capitalism is full of hypocrisy and contradictions. And that these contradictions lead them to a system of colonialism or imperialism. Other than that I'm not sure. Why do wealthier people have less kids? And why don't capitalists support children, families, and immigration, if population growth is good for their economy? 🤷♂️
2 replies
0 recast
1 reaction
Trigs
@trigs
He's describing effects, not intentions. Wealthy ppl don't intentionally have fewer kids. Ppl who are willing to choose to have fewer kids when the reach success are the types to become wealthy. It's just logical. More kids distributes estates further as they dilute the wealth. Capitalists aren't intentionally shooting themselves in the foot with reducing populations and blocking immigration, they just mostly don't realize they need poor ppl to keep their fantasy of infinite wealth growth alive. Don't asribe intention to that which can be more easily described as ignorance.
1 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
Stuart
@olystuart
Good point. He mentioned cultural anthropology, I think I'm just less familiar with thinking through that lens.
0 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
