• @adeoxymus
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    21 year ago

    For crying out loud, Clyde… you need a bunch of science nerds to tell you something this obvious? Fine.

    Lol, very first sentence in that source:

    Three mechanisms influence the fertility decision of educated women: (1) the relatively higher incomes and thus higher income forgone due to childbearing leads them to want fewer children. […]

    • @masquenox
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      01 year ago

      I swear… it’s moments like these that it really seems like liberal brain-rot is even more debilitating than the fascist variety.

      Which part of…

      You know we could just achieve that easily by giving women reproductive rights, don’t you? As in… no capitalism required at all?

      didin’t you understand the first time around?

      • @adeoxymus
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        21 year ago

        Because you were replying to this statement by OP:

        and as societies get richer in material wealth they produce fewer children and have the luxury to pay attention to things like the environment and their impact on it.

        In short your source doesn’t support your claim, but it does story OP’s claim

        • @masquenox
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          01 year ago

          How deep does one’s head have to be up one’s own arrse to believe that this…

          and as societies get richer in material wealth they produce fewer children and have the luxury to pay attention to things like the environment and their impact on it.

          …requires capitalism?