• AtomPunk [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The problem is that these chemicals are everywhere. BPA can be found in water bottles and food containers and sales receipts. Phthalates are even more common: They are in the coatings of pills and nutritional supplements; they're used in gelling agents, lubricants, binders, emulsifying agents, and suspending agents. Not to mention medical devices, detergents and packaging, paint and modeling clay, pharmaceuticals and textiles and sex toys and nail polish and liquid soap and hair spray. They are used in tubing that processes food, so you'll find them in milk, yogurt, sauces, soups, and even, in small amounts, in eggs, fruits, vegetables, pasta, noodles, rice, and water. The CDC determined that just about everyone in the United States has measurable levels of phthalates in his or her body—they're unavoidable.

    Capitalism really laying the groundwork for its own destruction right here. No need to hang the capitalists selling us the rope.

    Who am I kidding, they’ll have ways to get around their own infertility. This is the real 4D chess-play eugenics method :agony-turbo:

    • joshuaism [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      If you can't afford IVF do you even deserve to reproduce?

      • cilantrofellow [any]
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        4 years ago

        It will be considered charity and how capitalism is supposed to work. Giving “deserving” and photogenic poors the chance to reproduce.

        But no matter how many robots automate other jobs away, there will likely always be some underclass labor needed. They know that.