cassidyclown on Nostr: It's tempting to say """them""" for depopulation/decline of the west reasons (muslims ...

It's tempting to say """them""" for depopulation/decline of the west reasons (muslims aren't shitting on their kids all the time) - but there's a lot of immediate profit motivation revolving around land ownership as well. If you're made to believe you're a useless human being that can't ever own a home, then you will never attempt to own a home. You will never think to yourself "well I might not be able to buy a house, but maybe I can afford that little scrap of land and build a small house on it, using as little contractor work as possible - it's going to be a lot more work and skill-building than my parents had to put in but it will be worth it." There's profit in that. You can wean these kids onto a subscription pod service, once they feel it's safe to leave mummy and daddy, with no space for kids to run around or achieve any sense of self-determination. I really believe that you can't own anything without owning land - everything you own is just on borrowed time.

I (foolishly) have enough faith in humanity that I think most parents wouldn't buy into this without being propagandized. "Pick yourself up by your bootstraps" isn't even the "wrong" message on an individual level, it's just delivered with no acknowledgement that the current reality is very different to the reality of boomers or gen x. I think an uninfluenced parent would see their kid send out 100+ job applications and realize the answer is obviously not to "give up" but it's also not to berate them for being useless either.

Maybe "let's shit on your kids" just sells better as a headline and I'm wrong about everything. Who knows. Obviously it's not without basis in reality but it's also dialed up to a ridiculous extreme.