Asklemmy

"The poor should be prevented from breeding, amiright?" fucking hell who upvotes this shit

This would only deter people who would otherwise plan a child. Those people tend to have fewer children in the first place and are more likely to take good care of them. I actually think the best approach to reducing the world's population increase is a heavy investment in education including reproductive education, especially in poorer countries which are the ones still actually growing fast.

Do you have a solution to (or do you care that) poor people won't be able to have children? It will turn into genocide.

It already costs that much to raise kids also factoring in parents time, may be even more

You'll just end up like China with millions of undocumented children, mostly women. Children who are local get to go to school as long as they are registered to live with a local family, so there is no impediment there. Also you will have tremendous flouting of the law unless you create a perfect sterilizing agent that is reversible and deploy it en masse.

I disagree about who should procreate, though.

Only people with progressive ideologies, willing to educate their children to be better than themselves, socially responsable, solidarity- and community- oriented and willing to work to leave the world a better place than they found it, should have children.

That excludes whole countries and political systems, and that's a good thing.

Children for the rich / eugenics for the poor.

Inhumane and monstrous.

But at least capitalism would finally implode after the rich realize without exploitation of the workers they got rid of the backbone of their society

That would create a generational time bomb. What happens when the now sizeably reduced younger generation has to care for a hoard of old people and pay their pensions?

So the rich get to procreate and the poor die out? Genius!

Ah, so even.children only for the rich, huh?

I agree with this. Hardcore.

We should stop breeding and let humanity go extinct.