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Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 20, 2022

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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It's exactly what someone who wants the non fertile eliminated from the future would try to persuade you of.

In that horrific (or funny) podcast with Tyler Cowen feminist author Srinivasan basically says the quiet part out loud: that worrying about fertility is and should be seen as right wing and therefore suspicious, and people shouldn't do that because anyways immigration is a better solution (conveniently, as you can guess by her name, Srinivasan is an immigrant herself).

So it's not a problem but, if it is, you're not allowed to attempt to fix it in the most direct way, you have to actually accelerate some of the negative features of low-fertility states you don't like. Those're your options. Convenient for the other side no?

Given that I see similar tendencies elsewhere on the Left, I'm not inclined to trust that "don't worry about fertility" is something people only come to after hardcore, objective analysis.