• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Degrowth is a simple, known method that is ethical and requires no magical thinking

    That’s got nothing to do with individuals having or not having kids. Neither does high daycare costs.

    Let a little air out of the balloon before it pops.

    The problem with these metaphors is that they never have any material grounding. An economy isn’t an air bubble. “Letting the air out” isn’t “having fewer kids”. And I’m not even sure what you think “popping” is supposed to be.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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      5 hours ago

      This is a really disastisfying discussion. You can’t see how degrowth has everything to do with daycare prices and birthrates, so I can only assume you are new to the concept and haven’t bothered a cursory glance to wikipedia.

      In the same breath, you post how you don’t like metaphores meant to characterize arguments to lay people.

      I think we’re done here.

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        5 hours ago

        You can’t see how degrowth has everything to do with daycare prices and birthrates

        Because there’s not even a correlation, much less a causation.

        you post how you don’t like metaphores meant to characterize arguments to lay people

        Not when they’re hollow, no