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38 sats \ 7 replies \ @Satosora 2h \ on: The Baby Gap: Why Governments Can’t Pay Their Way to Higher Birth Rates (FT) econ

I dont know if bitcoin is even the fix. Unless we change our mentality and society, families wont want to become bigger because of the burden. The future looks bleak.

10 sats \ 5 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 2h

precisely.

Maybe bitcoin can help with that along the margin, but there's gotta be a mentality shift around values and how we live—that's for sure.

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @Satosora 2h

The people and government in sweden, norway, and finland have embraced a more family oriented lifestyle, right? Are birth rates going up or down there?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 2h

going down too, no difference to elsewhere

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 2h

down

and immigration is up

and not the good kind of immigration if there is such a thing

Sweden Norway Finland are boring countries so I can see how one would confuse that with family oriented

9 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan OP 2h

LOL, "boring countries"!

Love it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 1h

I mean the people are boring not the country lol

is that worse lol

oh well

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 2h

the simple reason is most young women don't want to get married and have 3 children unlike the 1950s

This bomb has been ticking for decades and accelerated during covid