“The crazy thing is, despite all this, people still want kids. The economy and social challenges—are the real culprits for the drop in birth rates, not a shift in attitudes. Countries with austerity measures, like the US, UK, Germany, Italy, and Greece, have lower birth rates than Denmark and France.”

It seems to me that they are using population decline to go after austerity and NIMBYs

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you have to admit that still is weird. I don't believe this is their primary goal, setting up a website and writing articles without a more clearly stated goal.

[–] tintory@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s weird, but everything is well researched, verified, and cited.

If you want I can give you the Reddit user who originally posted the site and you can ask him if he is David

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I'll ask!

[–] tintory@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is the first link

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/15gx5yu/tories_choices_not_millennials_britains/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks

[–] c0c0c0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Long term, yes, great for the planet. But shorter term, a shrinking pool of working aged adults are going to have to care for a growing pool of elderly. Additionally, the overall economy is going to contact before the age cohort imbalance takes care of itself. Same thing is happening across most of the developed world, but it's happening faster in China, and they're less developed to start with.

[–] tintory@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I don’t know, I found this on Reddit when the guy came after Michael Deacon for blaming for millennials and pleasantly surprised it was for increasing social spending and building homes rather than some right wing nonsense.

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every article is by “David Demos” which is clearly a pseudonym. I’m not disagreeing with the conclusions, but it’s definitely a red flag for me when info about the author is so obscured. Like it’s fine to be anonymous of course, but there is no establishment of who this person is other than an About page that uses weirdly upbeat language to advocate for anti-austerity measures to support population growth which is itself a strange take and I would want to know more about who is making it and why.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Yup I agree