[baq]

It is.

Who will buy your products and services 20-30 years from today?

If the question sounds ridiculous, trust me it isn't. You can look at demographics of China, or if you don't particularly care about that but care about finance, long duration government debt.

[webdood90]

> Who will buy your products and services 20-30 years from today?

Won't someone think of the poor capitalists!

That's a sad excuse to bring a life into this world. A world that suffers from the side effects of capitalism, ironically.

[baq]

Life doesn’t need excuses. It happens on its own. Human ability to stop it from happening reliably is rather new.

The poor capitalist is only one sad person. The poor dictator or emperor or tsar is another. The childless by choice middle class city dwellers who suddenly realize there’s no one young enough to provide the products and services they require to continue their hedonistic lifestyles are another still.

There’s a conspiracy theory I don’t subscribe to which says Covid and vaccines are a depopulation program. But we don’t need one…