These tax and debt slavers need to keep their investments going, consequences to individuals and society be damned.
Posted on 05/12/2026 1:49:05 PM PDT by fwdude
Generation Z is easily the most self-absorbed, egocentric generation in history. Their hubris will have consequences for its members, society and the future of humanity.
A Barna Survey on Gen Z attitudes toward marriage and children signals looming disaster.
Overall, the survey by America's foremost Christian pollster shows that Gen Z is largely disconnected from reality. Among 14- to 29-year-olds, support for socialism has increased 17 percentage points since the last time the survey was taken, from 22% to 39%. Why not? The signs of its success are all around us. What do you do when you get caught between Pyongyang and New York City?
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It’s not just the land. It’s the water and its availability to land that can be built on.
it used to be men wouldn't even be allowed to marry until they had some means to provide for a wife and children..
nowadays, there seems to be no drive to accomplish anything let alone establish a family..
video games,gambling,endless sport adoration,porn everywhere,drugs and fancy coffees...younger generations in a nutshell.
“Due to Social Security, we don’t need to have children to take care of us as we age.”
Things can change faster than folks might be able to have children to take care of them in their old age.
The anxiety ridden, prescription popping pool to choose from has it’s own dangers too. It’s so weird that the easiest time in human history to exist is so troubling to the young of either sex.
From https://humanlifereview.com/the-long-road-of-eugenics-from-rockefeller-to-roe-v-wade/
...Junior (1874-1960) had turned 19 in 1893.31 He learned population theory from his 19th-century college professors at Brown University, who were enamored of Thomas Malthus.32
The major intellectual influence on Junior was Brown’s president, Elisha Benjamin Andrews, a one-eyed, larger-than life Civil War veteran. Andrews influenced Junior directly in the courses he taught, and indirectly in the environment of the institution he shaped.
“Alone among contemporary economists, Andrews considered rapid population growth, through both natural increase and immigration, as a serious threat.” He exhorted his students to carry out their duty as Christians to solve these problems: “Where are the young men and women of means and leisure who will duly study the social problems of our time and help to their solution?”33. In 1894, Junior wrote a sophomore essay, “The Dangers to America Arising from Unrestricted Immigration,” denouncing immigrants as “the scum of foreign cities; the vagabond, the tramp, the pauper, and the indolent . . . ignorant and hardly better than beasts.”34
ARE THERE TOO MANY OF US?
BY PRESIDENT E. B. ANDREWS, BROWN UNIVERSITY
It was a confusing time for many Christians. Proof of that is Andrews was descended from a line of respected Baptist clergymen and it looks like he fell for that Malthusian falderal pretty hard.
Junior took over his father’s oil empire.35 By 1910, attorney Starr J. Murphy succeeded Gates as head of philanthropy. The biographers describe the Rockefellers during these early years as “institution builders,” establishing the great trusts that would do so much to mold the world we know today.
These trusts, according to the biographers, were not intended to relieve the needy: People with needs were considered to be displaying symptoms of other problems. Under Junior and Murphy, money was “diverted to . . . innovative groups that were attempting to deal with causes rather than symptoms.”36
Among these trusts were the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901; now Rockefeller University),37 the General Education Board (1903), the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission (1909), the Rockefeller Foundation (1913),38 and the Bureau of Social Hygiene (1913).39
Some people thought Jr was naive for a measurable length of time. I think into his 50's but once you understand the power his crew were building into those bureaus and boards, commissions and foundations you'll probably figure out where that phrase Deep State came from.
Anyway, Jr and his family (wife, Abby Aldrich and children), being impressed with all things China started drifting away from their religious beliefs; his son John D Rockefeller III must have really been taken with that Malthusian bedtime story because he's the one who powered the abortion alternative into America's psyche and who knows? perhaps he was guilt ridden, too, knowing his father was wrong about immigrants, so perhaps he took steps to influence the opening of our borders, too. I'll have to look into that.
Disagree. If AI pans out, that could be the increase in 'work force' needed, mentioned on this thread.
1) its far more difficult and takes much longer than it used to in order to "establish" yourself as in have career stability and a house. 2) Femanazis actively discourage women from getting serious about settling down until they're in their 30s....ie after all their youth is gone and they are thus no longer nearly as attractive to men looking to meet the right girl and start a family. Also with the education system being much more geared toward women than men, and then corporations actively discriminating against White men in hiring/promotion, this means there are really going to be far fewer men women deem to be attractive prospects.
Add it all up and you have both most women and most men no longer being considered reasonable prospects for each other or not what the other wants. No wonder there are fewer marriages and fewer kids.
Being in a healthy marriage is directly related to more income. Maybe because there is more to fight for?
AI may do the thinking but you still need skilled hands until the robots become articulate enough to do skilled labor and think on the fly.
I can’t raise a bunch of kids like weeds and then send them out pennyless into the world at 18.
Some "intelligent people" will avoid drug testing IF they have used recently, and know they would fail.
Truing to buy votes, a pantload at a time.....
Have babies to continue funding government spending waste and fraud.
And young women can hook themselves out on social media and get worldwide attention inflating their egos. Average guys can’t compete and choose not to. I can’t say I blame them.
It's been reserved for the very wealthy and the very poor for some time now.
As you said, they're intelligent.
They know that it's a cage, even if it's a gilded one, and depending on the drug, they've opted to free their mind.
Drug tests are to flag drugs they don't want you to use. Alcohol and other drugs? Fine. Carry on.
Worse than penniless - they'd start about $250k in the hole just from the national debt.
These tax and debt slavers need to keep their investments going, consequences to individuals and society be damned.
It's a test to see if you obey the law.
If you feel free to break the law, you will feel free to break other rules.
People that do drugs have higher on the job injury rates, high use of sick time, show up to work late.
Before you say it, alcoholics do as well, but not everyone that uses alcohol is an alcoholic.
There's a lot more to the demographic transition than that (especially since Social Security checks alone can't and don't keep most retirees afloat financially).
First, with reduced infant mortality compared to 100 years ago, there's less of a reason to have 10 kids with the hope that 1 or 2 make it adulthood, your one kid will probably make it.
Second, back when a large fraction of the population farmed their own plots of land, unless you were wealthy enough to hire labor, the only option was to breed lots of your own laborers.
Third, as women became skilled and educated, having their first kid while in their teens didn't make sense economically or socially.
To reverse these trends, we'd have to A. roll back pediatric medicine so that survival to adulthood becomes a crapshoot again, B. go back to an agrarian economy, and C. treat women the way Muslims do. None of those are going to happen, and none are desirable.
So our economies will just have to adjust to low or zero population growth - there will be a few decades of difficulty with SS and other retirement funds, but otherwise, this isn't a catastrophe. What would be a catastrophe is trying to reverse the zero growth by importing masses of Third World peoples to compensate.
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