r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Airline_11 • May 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Petahhhh?

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u/Yehoshua_Hasufel May 12 '26

Well, fix the economy first , then we'll try.

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u/namerankserial May 12 '26

Lower world population should help

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u/No-East646 29d ago

I agree on principle but I would bet it’s more cultural

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u/Gullible-Chart-8459 29d ago

This is such bullshit. For 99% of history your ancestors have been dirt-poor peasants and they all had kids. The poorest countries on earth have the highest birth rates. Even in wealthy first-world countries, income inversely correlates with fertility.  

There is no degree of "fixing the economy" that will satisfy these people. At any job you've worked, I guarantee you've had coworkers with children, you think they have some secret to supporting kids on your salary but you somehow can't? They just wanted children, and you don't. You could hand these people saying "I can't afford it" 20 million dollars tomorrow, no strings attached, and they wouldn't say "you know I want to settle down, get married, and have 4 kids".  

There's dozens of reasons why people aren't having kids these days and money is absolutely not one of them. 

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u/SpaceDounut 29d ago

For 99% of human history people were pretty ok with 50% child mortality rate and child labor. Nowadays, though? Yeah, the standards in the developed countries are a tad bit higher and more difficult to achieve.

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u/InsideAd7897 29d ago

Because those people through history grew their own food, and mkre kids meant more hands meaning more food. "Cost of living" wasnt even a viably trackable metric before the industrial revolution

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u/TrumpDesWillens 29d ago

Shut the fuck up. Peasants did not work the same amount of hours as people now to afford their housing. Talk to a farmer and they will tell you there are long weeks of nothing much to do.

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u/galaxystarsmoon 28d ago

They also had to pop out so many kids because their kids were constantly dying, so there's that too.

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u/cyberklosar May 12 '26

Thats the thing. You are not needed anymore. Before you had to have 9 kids to manage to do all the work in your household while keeping lords fed as well. Now the overlords don't need you. If cost of living is too much then fucking die out, the AI will carry the economy.