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greenavocadoyesterday at 1:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

Prosperity is a curse. People are no longer having children in Poland. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...


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pxtailyesterday at 2:23 PM

It's the South Korea model and road, people are working hard to chase constantly and quickly moving goal of securing extremely expensive home, basic setup for having the family. But process itself is exhausting and depleting.

lo_zamoyskiyesterday at 2:07 PM

It's not prosperity, but consumerism. Consumerism causes demographic decline, because it unhinges people's priorities. Their conception of the purpose of life becomes more materialistic, and children compete with that kind of materialistic, self-indulgent consumption.

In that sense, the Poles have been seduced by consumerism.

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