Human reproduction anxiety politics is mostly dumb because a lion in the year 40000 BCE killing a random human would be worth more in terms of the destruction of human life than any genocidal maniac in the entire span of human history. Intuitively we don't think like that. We blame other humans for ruining the existing human lives not potential human lives.

@Erato_Heti what even is "reproduction anxiety" is that just like . white replacement "theory" . I for one welcome the eventual eradication of white people

@sierra @Erato_Heti Artificial variable introduced to encourage producing more taxpaying units

@evamik @Erato_Heti oh of course. we as a species are as a whole living unsustainably anyways so declining birthrates is Good, Actually

@sierra @Erato_Heti There's constant whining about the 'dependency ratio' being on decline because people aren't 'breeding enough', which is apparently bad because taxpayers are required to support the past generations, which kind of is not possible to continue indefinitely, but for some reason it seems that the real limits need to be tried in practice before perfectly predictable collapse can begin.

Being clear both Intergenerational taxation and White Genocide theory are both a type of Reproduction Anxiety politics. They share common groudwork in this case as do a lot of similar discourses under this umbrella. The more encompassing and existential one right now is that there is NO birth rate replacement happening in nearly any country right now much less globally. People straight up aren't fucking for kids any more and thats new.

I don't consider myself Malthusian because of the whole considering myself a marxist thing. That said, I think the concept of 'birth obligatory' politics is disturbing and wretched in form. With that said this is not a 'clean' stance that you can take because when you refuse the idea of these obligations on a mass level you are basically setting up for waning vassal state countries fading out and emmigrating into their host countries. On the other hand, the main way you tamper for birthrates is to stop giving people contraceptives and reaffirm heteronormative family models. I really just dont think people in the agency of the lives they are currently living owe their national economies fucking anything and its horrific to think like that. More notably, and perhaps in more firm adjacency to Marx here possibly (in the sense of noting real historical changes since he was writing), I think parenthood produces are reaffirms a false conciousness, if not has the conditions in itself to excuse bourgosie and lumpen behaviour patterns. This is unfortunately just a scrap thought and so I have no way to wrap it up in any conclusive direction but it's just been one of those subjects thats been on my mind recent.