what if instead of being evil eugenicists we just paid people not to have excesses of children

@icedquinn Most models are predicting a shortage of kids in the US and similar things seem to happen when developing countries start educating women.

@swiley letting women work has had.. complicated ramifications.
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nothing correlates more with birthrates plumetting everywhere than this lol
@orekix i'm not against the thesis (women working) but there are other existential crises that then need to be addressed in other ways. @swiley
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dunno man, worked for grandpa and grandma but now there are so many more issues, maybe we should have just listened
@orekix @swiley my pet peeve with this has been the systematic destruction of opportunities to pair bond.

there is no free time (everything is 80 hour work weeks, mandatory overtime) to meet outside school or $job.

and every venue has incrementally said it's inappropriate to flirt in that venue.

so when the fuck are you supposed to do it
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@icedquinn @orekix idk if you're tactful about it and take care of yourself they don't seem to mind. I wouldn't flirt with coworkers but I dated the girl I studied calculus with in college and she was an uber feminist.

@swiley @orekix when i was in college you couldn't even talk to people. everyone was just there to phone in minimum effort to transfer out to another school. in between their day jobs.

@icedquinn @orekix Yeah I spent my whole life home schooled in a really rural area and felt like college was my last big chance to socialize before going off to work so I put a ton of effort into it.
It's definitely doable and I *feel* like it should be doable afterwards but haven't quite figured that out yet.

@swiley @orekix prior to the latest round of davos bullshit, the answer to this was going to conferences and meetup.com
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