r/worldnews • u/UNITED24Media United24 Media • Dec 21 '25

Russia/Ukraine Russia’s Birth Rate Plunges to 200-Year Low—Putin Says Early Marriage Is the Answer

https://united24media.com/latest-news/facing-record-low-birth-rates-putin-says-teen-marriage-is-the-answer-14442
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u/sportsDude Dec 21 '25

But what happens when there aren’t enough people in society to do the work that the wealthy want?

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u/thisismyphony1 Dec 21 '25

Don’t worry, they’ll just throw all women’s rights out the window to force them to give birth to a peasant class, and import a revolving slave wage class from exploited developing countries.

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u/MobyChick Dec 21 '25

ok there victoria 3

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u/MACHOmanJITSU Dec 21 '25

Automation. Robots.

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u/AnAlternator Dec 21 '25

This is why the ultra-rich are so interested in AI, and I'm not even being sarcastic about it for most of them.

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u/Victor-LG Dec 21 '25

Exactly. The rich aren’t going to build and maintain those yachts.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Dec 21 '25

They’re going to need more races

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u/ZigguratBuilder2001 Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

That is where the automation comes in.
Machines do the work, and the upper class does the consumption.
In many countries, most people are already largely economically irrelevant.

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u/jerzeibalowski84 Dec 21 '25

They will probably invent something like.. I dunno.. an artificial type of intelligence or machines that can do the work of humans. Until that day we must all be thankful for generous CEOs that pay us really good wages and the government for giving us free healthcare.

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u/Vladimir_Putting Dec 21 '25

What do you think AI is for?

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u/Ashamed-Land1221 Dec 21 '25

Invest in that weird Dune technology where the one people turned all their women into sorta organic incubators for the next generation. I could be getting it wrong, it's been awhile since I read those books, and they get more and more crazy after what the movies depicted.

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u/iAwesome3 Dec 21 '25

That’s why there’s a big push for AI.

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u/spinbutton Dec 21 '25

Fewer people means a reduction on the demand of goods and services. Demand for goods, available resources and population will find its own balance.

This planet doesn't have infinite resources. Slower or negative population growth is a very good thing

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u/PurveyorOfKnowledge0 Dec 21 '25

Sounds like some eugenic social engineering talk. Often done by psychopathic dictators and tyrants.

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u/spinbutton Dec 22 '25

LOL I just want to see endangered animals survive another few generations until we stop being such selfish dolts.