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[–]LyingSpirit472 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

While money is the majority, I'd also see population control as a big reason for it too. If the government made a plan to sterilize the feeble-minded, then any person with a soul would riot over this...but if they make a new movement that makes you cool and special and awesome and you matter more than anyone else in the world, and all you have to do is have yourself sterilized to be in the group...why, you'll get not just the feeble-minded, the social climbers, people of unapproved political beliefs/races, etc. to do it!

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Well the government has already had and implemented such programs in the past. History of the eugenics movement is worth studying.

However I don't think this line of reasoning really tracks. The government doesn't really benefit much from sterilization of large swaths of the population. Quite the opposite in fact.

[–]fuck_redditThou/Thee/Thy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The government doesn’t benefit, but everyone in the government is sure convinced it’s necessary.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Government is beholden to corporate interests. Short term profits are considered ultimate to all else, after all if you make bank why give a fuck about your successor. And let's be fair, trans shit is a money maker. Hormones for life, surgery、followups, reverse surgeries, make bank and when the heat is on retire.

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You don't see how the government would benefit from sterilizing a large swath of the population who they don't like or who have opposing political views as the people in power?

Even the "the government is beholden to corporate interests" argument you used lower wouldn't work there since it even benefits the corporate interests: If you know it's inevitable the corporations are about to fully-automate pretty much every job possible, then you know that it's to your benefit to lower the surplus population as much as humanly possible before the automation starts. That gives you a two-pronged attack to do so- push gender woo onto the undesirable left wingers so they feel special and happily sterilize themselves, while pushing anti-vaxx or anti-mask rhetoric on the undesirable right wingers so they willingly die of preventable diseases. Either way, you've put enough chlorine in the gene pool the only people left will be the people rich enough to still have money/privilege in a post-automation world.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You don't see how the government would benefit from sterilizing a large swath of the population who they don't like or who have opposing political views as the people in power?

I don't, more people equal more power. You're still under this idea that democratic processes work, should the ruling class ever be disadvantaged by the popular vote to the point they can't manufacture consent they'll simply do away with the pretense of democracy and return to monarchy.

Even the "the government is beholden to corporate interests" argument you used lower wouldn't work there since it even benefits the corporate interests: If you know it's inevitable the corporations are about to fully-automate pretty much every job possible, then you know that it's to your benefit to lower the surplus population as much as humanly possible before the automation starts.

It doesn't work that way because the automation argument is retarded. It's all sci-fi nonsense that the proles eat up with glee because they love the idea of not having to work. End of the day it's basically a pipe dream. The more you automate shit cheaper shit gets the more demand there is and the positions open. But that's even assuming you "can" automate shit. It's far more complicated than the popular science mags want you to think.

Ruling class needs slaves to support them. Robots make bad slaves. They can't even make a good martini. Plus nobody wants a robot servant except the proles.