Did a single word of that sound clever while you were writing it?

Why would it stop at 4 if we can't make it stop at 8, before the economic calamity of population collapse sets in? And how do a handful of children pay for the benefits of a massive glut of old people?

Or is this another problem sticking your head in the sand will solve, like the national debt and climate change?

We aren't facing resource and climate collapse, and the choices aren't so apocalyptic.

The first is a really stupid claim that people have been saying since the 60s and it never seems to get any closer because technology keeps advancing.

As for climate collapse, if that happens, first, blame the environmentalists for making nuclear near impossible to build in a reasonable time frame (except in China, for some reason). Then, shoot youself cuz no total reorganization of society is gonna help.

Yes, the question is always a political one, but it's not cataclysmic, yet.

Trump chose Retarded Drunk Kegsbreath... who is running the US Military... so...

Well yeah, TreasonBitch Trump and Apartheidist RetardedShit Musk's "DOGE" fired the competent employees all over. GOP are traitors and saboteurs, they all need to be removed from office and permanently barred from it forevermore so we can get started fixing all the problems that the America Hating Retardican Shitbags Party have caused.

People can get sex from porn, and without string attached. It's way easier, everyone's way hotter, and it makes normal sex seem not worth the effort.

It would destroy my personal life, but it seems the only solution in this entire comment section that seems even remotely doable and which hasn't been tried and failed.

A world of 8 billion humans and very low birth rates isn't going to have 8 billion humans for long without higher birth rates. And without consumers, what are those robots gonna make, or sell it to?

Anyway, the real, immediate danger is entire social safety net is entirely based on having way more young people paying in than old people taking out. With so few kids being born, how's that supposed to work?

Nah, you just need to ban porn, or birth control.

I'd +1 you if people like me were allowed mod points on /.

Great, more gooning time!

Now THAT's a massive waste of space, particularly if like me, you have to use max DPI and font scaling cuz you're old and your eyes suck.

Just use Brave. Built in ad blocker without regards to manifest bullshit.

True, but those conditions aren't going away, means humans are bad drivers.

None of that changes the dynamics of competition.

Then you need to learn about capitalism from someone who doesn't hate it irrationally. Companies do resist reducing prices when their costs go down, but generally competition will lower prices, even if that means not raising their prices (as much) longer term.