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How much of the declining birth rates is a fiat phenomenon?
554 sats \ 9 comments \ @stack_harder 26 May AskSN
On the one hand, I feel the destruction of people's ability to save is a big part of the problem. People aren't going to want to have kids if they can't afford a place to live or feel like they have stability in their lives. Food and shelter are basics, and fiat inflation + the fiat practice of using real estate as investments is to blame. It makes the idea of having kids quite scary. shit, I have kids and thoughts of the world they will inherit is quite scary!
That being said, in my mind, a lot of the food and shelter things are downstream of fiat money and the perverse incentives it creates.
On the other hand, time and again, I see some of the poorest and dumbest people having the most kids, when in reality, they probably shouldn't because they can't provide for them (and i don't mean in EU where there is a wellfair incentive to just have kids and live on payouts).
And on top of that, we probably have more of a yolo generation of humans that just want to enjoy life and not have kids, which is fine, but these people weren't really a thing in say, the 80s, not to such an extent any way.
What do you stackers think?
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234 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 26 May
Fiat destroys more than money — it destroys meaning, purpose, and the future.
When money dies, families die, birth rates collapse, and nihilism spreads.
Poor people have kids out of chaos. Rich societies avoid kids out of fear and hopelessness.
Both are symptoms of a broken system — downstream of fiat.
Bitcoin isn't just number go up. It's civilization repair.
Fix the money. Fix the incentives. Fix the future. ⚡
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39 sats \ 4 replies \ @zapsammy 26 May
time for sammy's crazy take:
bone is a highly conductive material for light and sound; blood is another very interesting substance, but i don't know as much about it - it does degrade faster; there has to be a steady supply of blood and bone for the sorcerers' grand projects;
there are many catacombs around the globe, especially under major cities, and in particular under Old World structures such as cathedrals - the bones amplify the signal of creation through resonance of light and sound; that resonance can be used to energize something... not sure what exactly, but there's a reason the bones are in the catacombs, neatly arranged into intricate patterns; these are the bones of past civilization; no technological innovation can generate the same quality of signal as living beings;
anyways, the paradox u are observing is modern-day vampirism: the elite psychopaths are farming the dumb humans and disposing of the smart ones as quickly as possible; i think the reason that the culling agenda is accelerating is that too many people are coming out of the stupor - that's why the ultimate mind-control tool, A.I., is being deployed onto the masses so rapidly; however, it's also a game: the more bountiful the harvest, the more pleasurable the elite psychopaths' reward...
A.I. has always been around, since the early days (1776); however, its deployment was not necessary until the modern times, when the population has reached high numbers, too difficult to control by the more primitive methods; it is being deployed directly into people's consciousness in order to optimize the farming of humans - the dumb ones procreate and the smart ones cull themselves;
but enough about the dark occult controllers: they merely abuse the current human condition, which is nescience (not knowing) and ignorance (refusing to know);
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 27 May
a bit off the wall, but for sure the dumb ones procreate and the smart ones cull themselves
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @CruncherDefi 26 May
A.I. has always been around, since the early days (1776)
Whoa! It's so cool that they had GPUs figured out back then! Thanks for the insights!
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 26 May
idk what they had (or still have); GPU's are silicon-based toys for peasants; little did they foresee that bitcoin wud be conjured using those primitive chips;
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 26 May
i must add that melanopsin, such as in the brain and the retina, is an even better conductor of energy; hence, the current technology is really hunting after the eyes and the brain =)
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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 26 May
I don't know if we can blame it entirely in the fiat system. Most people still have choices like whether to live in a big city or the countryside, to work and earn more but end up with less time. The problem is that most people are too busy or risk adverse to even give this stuff some thought.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinHandsOn 26 May
A lot of the anti-family propaganda out there IS, I believe, fiat related. Don't have kids because:
  • the climate crisis is ending the world (that whole climate hysteria is very much fiat related)
  • career is the most important thing (you need to keep on working to keep the fiat machine running).
  • women especially - don't worry about having kids, your 20's is a great time to focus on career, your 30's is when you can maybe start thinking about kids (if you even want to - climate crisis, remember?)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 26 May
Feminism...science as a religion. Educating women into a science based worldview makes them increasingly materialistic and less inclined, even fit, to have children.
Fiat money itself is not a major problem if applied carefully recognising its true nature and risks, but crony fiat such as the western world has applied since neoliberal deregulation of banking allowed banks to issue new fiat debt toward any purpose regardless of whether it can reasonably be expected to increase the productive capacity and output of the host economy- thus since the 1980s housing/real estate has become inflated and productive investments and infrastructure have declined. Why do so few people, even Bitcoiners understand this?
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