• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Being against capitalism =/= supporting communism.

    Why do you believe everyone who hates capitalism thinks communism is the only viable alternative?

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      3 days ago

      The meme implies “not capitalism is the answer” and you’re not answering OP’s question.

      I’m with Phoenix here, this is a fundamental labor/production problem, not an organizational one. Even if wealth and work was magically, perfectly redistributed via some system (take your pick), life would still suck for younger people in SK.

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        But “not capitalism” is the solution.

        A lot of the low birthrate comes from people choosing careers over families. Gee i wonder what system propagates such behaviour?

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          It’s too late for SK.

          And even if it weren’t, there’s a lot of policy problems (immigration, sexism, internal cultural ones) that fall outside economic systems. “Just switch the economic system so people will want to have babies” is the other side of the coin of the hard right’s “just value traditional families so people will want to have babies.”

          To reiterate, I am saying this meme is wrong in portraying low birth rates as mostly a problem of the neoliberal capitalist economic system, even though it is a major contributor. A magic switchover would not fix it.