Germany’s birth rate fell to the lowest level in more than a decade last year, adding to concerns about how a shrinking workforce may dent the country’s economic prospects.

Figures released Wednesday by the Federal Institute for Population Research (BIB) showed that German women were having 1.36 children on average in fall 2023, compared with 1.57 in 2021.

    • @[email protected]
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      188 months ago

      I know how capitalism works, which is the complaint. If we have to sacrifice a liveable world to make the economy work, then it doesn’t work.

      • GladiusB
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        28 months ago

        True that. Now convince the rich ones in power that it does work for.

        • @[email protected]
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          28 months ago

          We live on the same planet, they don’t have a lifeboat. Also, as mentioned by someone earlier in the thread, it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. If we’re gonna live I imagine we’ll have to figuratively eat the rich. Literally if we don’t.