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I'm sure their rulers are having no trouble reproducing.
The middle class is being bred out of the gene pool.
I'm really confused about what you're trying to say, because it kind of sounds like replacement theory
No that's not what he's saying. He's saying the wealthy are trying to kill the rest of us off, or at least thin the herd. Though be it on purpose or just through incompetence is the question. It's not a crazy Theory really.
I don't think they are, because labour and consumption, which brings them money, all go through us and require us. In this case (because God knows evil people have conspired since the dawn of mankind and we all know the character of our leaders, so ofc it wouldn't be that crazy of an idea), it's just incompetence, I think, or it's simply seen as unimportant for globalist capitalists because labour can be outsourced or imported.
Well that's certainly a large part of it. It's also certainly true that a lot of the wealthy are actually really stupid, don't think things through, and are easily fooled.
But I'm not so certain it's just incompetence, though I'm sure that does play a big part. It's just hard not to think maybe a little bit of it isn't planned. When you learn about how project 2025 theorizes that the US population ideally should be 100 million it makes all the cutting health care and cutting food Aid and getting rid of vaccines take on a more Sinister light. And that was planned by the Heritage Foundation who write policy for not only the United States but large portions of the rest of the world too.
And then you start learning about these AI rationalists. Those whack jobs who think that we're going to create an AI God who will solve all the world's problems. And anything standing in the way of the creation of the AI God is inherently evil and any sacrifice to get to that point is worthwhile. There's a shocking number of techboro billionaires who are of that mindset. Who truly believe that we can get rid of Labor and replace it with robots and AI and they want to do it now. And don't look now but Peter Thiel is in France right now giving a speech about anybody who wants to regulate AI must be the Antichrist. Could a bunch of tech bro billionaires convince a lot of lazy capitalists that letting a lot of rest of us die is a good idea? Doesn't seem far-fetched to me.
Okay, first of all thank you for all the info you just dropped on me, what a thoughtful, thorough post.
And yes, perhaps there is something like that in the Western world, specifically America. I didn't know about the project and the numbers they wanted to reach. Scary. Because they're not even facetious anymore, they just tell it all, it might just be actioned (and the UK, where I currently reside, often follows America's example so there's that...). But the future is uncertain so let's hope the humanity of the American people will lead them somewhere else, perhaps with some balkanization involved because some ideologies are very geographically entrenched. 🙏
Okay, I read it and re read it and, unless I'm mistaken, I think he meant "rich people have money for kids, whilst the middle class doesn't". Which I don't necessarily agree with (ofc rich people have money and we have less and less, I agree and it sucks, but is it behind the birth rates, really?), that's much better than just another racist take. 😅