• Naich@lemmings.world
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    He’s got a bit confused. It’s the birth rate, and it’s not a percent. You need a birth rate of 2.1 per person to keep the population steady. It’s nothing to do with fertility, but more personal choices, like when a couple look around and think “nah, I’m not going to subject my kids to these fucking idiots”.

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      If I wasn’t already not having kids I definitely would have done it just to spite Paul Ryan