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We might have declining birthrates, but we also have substantially different living arrangements. 100 years ago, millions of 70 year olds living alone in a one family house would not be a thing. And part of the reason for the birthrate decline is that younger people are single for longer periods of time, which means they aren't living with a partner - most single adults will live in one person households if they can.

We have many decades to go until our common people are as poor as they were in the soviet union (at least in countries that were on the capitalistic side of the iron curtain), though that does seem to be the general trajectory. But soviet poverty went beyond not being wealthy - there was always a very distinct risk that the local store was out of basic necessities, and I really don't think this is going to be common in most western european countries in this century.

For some people, "normal human but with fantastic (class-based) capabilities" is exactly the kind of fantasy they want to live. Not me though, I'm gonna make a halfling paladin and name her Fazzy Mentan.

Ist ein regierungskritischer, jüdischer Israeli eigentlich auch antisemitisch?

Fangfrage, der deutsche Staat sagt "ja, natürlich".

The hard part is how to actually make the government do that. And ideally without turning your state into a stalinist or maoist dystopia.

But it lessens it, hopefully

It's true that capitalistic societies don't do any better for the environment (which was the point of my comment, they're BOTH bad in this aspect), but at least in capitalist Europe the common people got relative wealth out of it. In the soviet union, people were oppressed by the state, poor, and got their environment destroyed.

Ich fürchte, dass ich eine andere Definition für "erfolgreiche Regierung" habe als Merz.

I think it even goes beyond that. e.g. the sowjet union genuinely had issues with food security, but they still fucked up when they dried out the aral sea because they were acting shortsightedly.

You don't need capitalism to suck, though. The Spanish conquistadores were slavers and genocidal murderers but they certainly weren't capitalists.

And it's not just capitalism, living beyond their means was rather common for many civilizations in the past and some of them paid dearly for it. And look at who ruled the area when the aral sea started to dry up, which fucked the entire area to hell. That wasn't capitalism, just a short-sighted communist (or "communist", but that definitely wasn't capitalism) regime.

It's definitely possible for humans to not suck in this aspect, but once you get to a certain level of technology and organization it gets pretty hard.

Thing is, someone owns those houses and it's certainly not poor people like me. Also we need more housing in most western countries and private entities are definitely not going to build it if they can't rent it out. We need to figure out a way to force public entities like the state to build more housing.

A communist (or similar) revolution might take care of it, but that's a lot more involved than "all landlords disappear".

I have a hard time believing that not having enough sex was ever the reason that prehistoric people had too few children.