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0 points29athrowaway3y ago0 comments

Then each renter will become a homeowner, they will feel very comfortable, have 4 kids, and now you will need 4x more units.

Then their kids will have 4 kids, and you'll need 16x more units with respect to where you started.

Few generations after you have a much deeper problem that the one you started with. Now you live in a country with a population of over 1 billion, where protests cannot be controlled anymore and now you need a totalitarian regime with a massive surveillance and censorship apparatus to keep things under control.

The alternative is that everyone is stressed out and feels the pressure of a system that is over capacity.

Have you heard of Earth day? In 2022, it was April 22. It means that by April 22 we already consumed our environmental budget for the full year.

If we continue like this it's not going to be long until there's mandatory population control.

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TuringNYC3y ago

>> Then each renter will become a homeowner, they will feel very comfortable

Not sure about the entire comment, but the above line is the clutch item. Once a renter turns into a homeowners, things change drastically. In the US you are typically highly leveraged once you buy a home. That means a 20% drop in home value wipes out all your equity. So once you buy into the system (esp with leverage) you have a huge incentive now to perpetuate the system that once enslaved you. Now you become the prison guard. Sadly, even the prison guard is in the prison of debt for many years, thus has to maintain the jail.

bushbaba3y ago

Well the birth rate is less than replacement rate. Without illegal immigration the US would not be seeing a population growth.

sleepydog3y ago

I don't understand. The population in wealthy countries is growing very slowly.

https://datacommons.org/tools/timeline#&place=country/USA&st...

What makes you say that housing costs are the cause? I've not heard of that argument before.

wyre3y ago

Reminds me of this [1] post yesterday that because sedans can only fit 2 car seats parents don’t have a third child because they can’t afford a bigger car.

Maybe, parents are having less kids because they can’t afford to move to a place with an extra bedroom.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32491901

29athrowawayOP3y ago

Because cost of life is high. Make cost of life lower and see what happens.

ziddoap3y ago

>It's fine for people to struggle and be stressed out, the opposite would be overpopulation.

People should struggle now to the point that they can't have kids so that 3 generations down the line we don't need more housing?

Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding. Because this seems like a pretty hot take if I'm understanding you correctly.

rowanG0773y ago

So your point is we need to keep people in such shitty situations they won't want to bring kids into this world?

29athrowawayOP3y ago

My point is that the system is overcapacity, that's the reality you like it or not.

If you want to watch Netflix and forget about what's happening outside, that's your choice. But we are completely destroying this planet in every way.

There are lots of mouths to feed every day depending on systems that are not sustainable and may collapse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjsThobgq7Q

If you go camping and have limited amount of food rations, water, etc, you will make sensible decisions about how to consume the supplies you have. This is very similar.

reedjosh3y ago

I find it funny that I agree with you in some ways that others might not.

For example, I agree people should ditch the dumb super hero movies and do something better. Maybe garden or learn to weld or something.

But I completely disagree with you that humans are destroying the planet in an unsustainable way.

Sure, there are huge challenge and excesses, but the human spirit should also bring solutions.

Particularly in the face of both energy and water shortages, we should be building coastal nuclear plants.

Not only do they provide clean energy, but they basically function as desalination plants.

That and it's pretty glib to make people "uncomfortable" so they don't procreate. Especially when here in the US we barely even have population growth.

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rowanG0773y ago

Keeping people in misery is not the solution. Population control is much less ethically challenging IMO.

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0 points29athrowaway3y ago0 comments

Then each renter will become a homeowner, they will feel very comfortable, have 4 kids, and now you will need 4x more units.

Then their kids will have 4 kids, and you'll need 16x more units with respect to where you started.

The alternative is that everyone is stressed out and feels the pressure of a system that is over capacity.

Have you heard of Earth day? In 2022, it was April 22. It means that by April 22 we already consumed our environmental budget for the full year.

If we continue like this it's not going to be long until there's mandatory population control.

NOTE: this was edited

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TuringNYC3y ago

>> Then each renter will become a homeowner, they will feel very comfortable

bushbaba3y ago

Well the birth rate is less than replacement rate. Without illegal immigration the US would not be seeing a population growth.

sleepydog3y ago

I don't understand. The population in wealthy countries is growing very slowly.

https://datacommons.org/tools/timeline#&place=country/USA&st...

What makes you say that housing costs are the cause? I've not heard of that argument before.

wyre3y ago

Reminds me of this [1] post yesterday that because sedans can only fit 2 car seats parents don’t have a third child because they can’t afford a bigger car.

Maybe, parents are having less kids because they can’t afford to move to a place with an extra bedroom.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32491901

29athrowawayOP3y ago

Because cost of life is high. Make cost of life lower and see what happens.

ziddoap3y ago

>It's fine for people to struggle and be stressed out, the opposite would be overpopulation.

People should struggle now to the point that they can't have kids so that 3 generations down the line we don't need more housing?

Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding. Because this seems like a pretty hot take if I'm understanding you correctly.

rowanG0773y ago

So your point is we need to keep people in such shitty situations they won't want to bring kids into this world?

29athrowawayOP3y ago

My point is that the system is overcapacity, that's the reality you like it or not.

If you want to watch Netflix and forget about what's happening outside, that's your choice. But we are completely destroying this planet in every way.

There are lots of mouths to feed every day depending on systems that are not sustainable and may collapse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjsThobgq7Q

If you go camping and have limited amount of food rations, water, etc, you will make sensible decisions about how to consume the supplies you have. This is very similar.

reedjosh3y ago

I find it funny that I agree with you in some ways that others might not.

For example, I agree people should ditch the dumb super hero movies and do something better. Maybe garden or learn to weld or something.

But I completely disagree with you that humans are destroying the planet in an unsustainable way.

Sure, there are huge challenge and excesses, but the human spirit should also bring solutions.

Particularly in the face of both energy and water shortages, we should be building coastal nuclear plants.

Not only do they provide clean energy, but they basically function as desalination plants.

That and it's pretty glib to make people "uncomfortable" so they don't procreate. Especially when here in the US we barely even have population growth.

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rowanG0773y ago

Keeping people in misery is not the solution. Population control is much less ethically challenging IMO.

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