Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of parliament and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said a new bill would tackle the “ideology of childlessness.”
  • frazw@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Maybe if they weren’t destabilising the world, their citizens might feel happier about bringing children into it.

    • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Need more workers/consumers, full stop. The main and most important reason. Doesn’t matter if it’s an authoritarian state like Russia or a “free” capitalist state like USA.

      Need more bodies to produce and consume.