• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 days ago

    Ensuring there are more people has the potential to keep wages low across all industries by virtue of a larger pool of potential labor.

    That’s it. That’s the whole thing.

    They need babies, because more babies now becomes cheaper labor later – especially when the government is no longer on the hook for any assistance post-birth (or pre-birth, for that matter). It means profits for the rich across entire lives.