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It’s terrifying how many comments seems to be supporting this terrifying suggestion as a viable option. For anyone wondering. Thing is, if a brain is dead, the body starts to rot, a lot of the functions your brain does, keep the body not rotting. When your brain dies and your body starts rotting, medicine can hit your corpse with some hard drugs to delay the rot a little, but they’re not compatible with growing a fertilised egg to maturity. What the absolute fuck.
Why does this sound like Death Stranding…
Technically it’s Dune.
Look up axlotl tanks.
Time to move into a lone shelter in the woods and wait until all cities randomly explode
I’m not sure how this has to do with capitalism
capitalism, or at least the flavour we enjoy in “the west”, needs continued increases in profit and growth or baby Jesus will cry or something.
The easiest way to do that is by increasing population. Most of the countries that have actually benefited from capitalism over the last 80 years are now seeing declining populations (or at least working populations) as the desperation to funnel wealth upwards makes the idea of starting a family unpalatable.
This is why “wealthy” capitalist counties are all importing migrants at unprecedented rates. However this upsets the nationalism that goes hand in hand with exploitative capitalism as they don’t want to “lose their country” to the very people propping it up.
The next logical step is brain dead baby makers.
“The next logical step is brain dead baby makers”
I thought those were conservatives
It’s a weak joke. They should have mentioned selling the womb, which is definitely not implied. Low effort tankie bs
Don’t you bring baby Jesus into this. 8 pound 4 oz Jesus has nothing to do with this.
And what do you think socialism relies on? Same goes for Communism. None of them exist without a reliably replenishing population.
Not really. Without the need for upward trending squiggly lines to justify CEO’s next pay increase or predatory institutions looking to buy up any business that doesn’t show growth every quarter and break it up for parts companies can quite easily scale back when demand shrinks.
It’s unthinkable to us because we pray at the alter of the shareholder but there are millions of small businesses that maintain steady profitability (with little growth) over the life of the owner. Or are even scaled back when needed (market issues, owner lifestyle changes) and then scaled up again when it is desirable.
A business that is allowed to have other goals other than increased profit growth no matter what can provide jobs, goods and still a regular profit in all types of markets. If the population shrinks then the company shrinks. And why shouldn’t it? There are less people to sell too and less people looking for employment.
Are you fucking high?
Because I’m tripping on three solid hits of acid and 300mg of THC trying to be as baroquely fucking stupid as that statement.
Tell me what you’re high on. I want to be a winner.
Such an edgy response!
It’s a lemmy thing.
Gotcha. Sometimes I forget 😅
I think the connection they’re going for is this is the kind of hair brained distopian bullshit that eventually comes trying to achieve "infinite growth"in a finite world.
Well it’s not like socialist countries don’t need growth to achieve their goals and that growth needs new workers
I think the implication is that in a socialist/communist utopia there would be no need for continual growth. their only goals would be to make their populations comfortable and I guess further the arts/technology.
Obviously one or two non capitalist countries need to try and grow at the same rate as their capitalist neighbours so they can try and fend off the “democracy” that capitalist countries so often like to bestow on non-capitalist and/or oilfield owning countries.
How those types of societies would operate when not trying to compete with aggressive capitalism is unknown. No doubt human nature would take its course and we’d be back here in 50 years or so.
utopia
Right. But in the meanwhile…
In the meanwhile things are getting consistently shittier under capitalism and someone has suggested using brain dead woman as incubators to combat the collapse we’re looking at now that there are no new countries to exploit.
Why do you think we’re so desperate to get to space now? Capitalism needs growth.
You can support that system or you can try to work for a new one.
The new one, as it exists right now, looks pretty horrid too. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to hear this story from the supposedly socialist China.
And I don’t think some loon suggesting this means much. Anyone can suggest anything. This made news because of how horrible the suggestion was and how outraged people got over it.
Supposedly socialist is exactly right, but we’re not here to split hairs about the exact name of the ideal governing/economic style.
In a very dumbed down way socialism/communism is meant to value the goals of the many over the few and capitalism is touted as the bastion for individual freedom. But there is no end to individuals getting royally fucked, often in legal and yet unfair ways in capitalistic countries all for the sake of a few percentage points on a quarterly report.
Most people who are capitalism detractors don’t want follow in china or Russia’s footsteps. We just want a system that values people more than money.
I can see China inducing comas in Uyghur women and forcing them to be incubators for the billionaires in the Chinese Capitalist Party who don’t want to deal with pregnancy.
If the Chinese do it is double plus ungood but if the west does it, it is by definition, double plus good. Thank you fellow pleb for teaching me this understanding. I’m double plus looking forward to the 2 minutes of hate this morning.
“Double plus” good? What kind of nonsense is this?
It’s Newspeak from Orwell’s 1984:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak#Prefixes
It’s purposefully stupid.
I personally use it to highlight issues on China. It seems to me that, like the Conservative/Liberal Party divide, the The West/China divide is more a “it’s good if my side does it but bad when my opponent does it”.
Use of Newspeak high lights this obserdity by replacing good with good and bad with ungood (i.e. not-good or opposite of good)
It’s not good if anyone does it.
That’s my point though. It isn’t good if anyone does it. Doesn’t matter the country, party of political ideology.
Why be upset at China if we’re doing it as well? At least we have control over our laws, not China’s.
Capitalism is when bad things happen. Don’t you know that self-serving hierarchies never formed under any other system?
When self-serving hierarchies form under other systems it’s because The CIA Did It.
Wait until they realize this has nothing to do with capitalism….
Tbf the idea people think of that instead of better work-life-balance and free school lunches is studiable.
The christofascism definitely has a billionaire’s dick in its mouth.
ROFL… lemmy is so funny.
O brave new world
Yes, sure, and cannibalism solves overpopulation and starvation in one easy step…
Doesn’t make it a good idea.
Eating the rich sure looks tempting
Naww. Let’s mulch them, make good food from their otherwise useless bodies.
Good meat going to waste, it got all that plastic in it ! Yummy
This is part of the plot of Death Stranding. We’re gonna have oil ghosts soon.
Honestly don’t have a problem with this if there was prior consent in a living will. I could see a lot of people willing to sign up for this.
Honestly main unethical part is that there are the alternatives “making it cheaper to raise children” or “needing less households where both parents have to work full-time” yet we debate this.
I think they did that in one of the Dune spinoffs
This is sort or a Frank Herbert trope actually. You might be thinking of Hellstrom’s Hive, in particular “reproductive stumps”.
As Gandalf said, it is grim reading.
Yes, they’re called axlotl tanks.
My name is Buck, something something
Yes, Alotl tanks are the endstate of capitalism.
Feels really good to be infertile right about now
Suggests? They literally did that already.
Why make worthless babies when we can use them to manufacture spice?
This guy gets it.
