• humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      Yeah, actually having the coefficient of 1.4-1.7 is OK: look at France or Germany: they had these values for nearly 40 years and the population only increases

                • nomous@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  3 months ago

                  Stewart pretty much destroyed his career the first time. He went from being a pretty well-respected CNN talking head to a corporate shill with a primetime slot on FOX to now being a blatant autocratic toadie and billionaires lapdog on a failed social media network.

                  As someone who saw the episode of Crossfire when it aired, it’s been an interesting fall.

            • humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              3·
              3 months ago

              Even if A implies B in a classic logic sense, having A in mind doesn’t mean that one has B. If that wasn’t the case, no propaganda machine would work.

              Furthermore, concern about population decline could come from a legit fear that there won’t be enough young people to fuel capitalism machine when one’s old , or that reproduction decline has a good correlation coefficient with upcoming wars.