Consequences of a Shrinking Global Population

[Unkotare]

Faced with the reality of a future with more old people living longer and fewer young people being born to keep societies afloat, a number of choices will have to be made by most countries. Among these are allowing (if not recruiting) immigrants, particularly those with skills or who are willing to provide services in demand.


The World Can't Afford to Cheat Care Workers

 

[HenryBHough]

So strange to hear liberals who once went nuts warning us of "the population bomb" jonesing to find ways to grow more people.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Faced with the reality of a future with more old people living longer and fewer young people being born to keep societies afloat, a number of choices will have to be made by most countries. Among these are allowing (if not recruiting) immigrants, particularly those with skills or who are willing to provide services in demand.


The World Can't Afford to Cheat Care Workers

The reasons why there is a shrinking population is because the Left Wingers have convinced generations of women that marriage, motherhood and families are gender oppression, and it is the reason why western civilization is dying.

 

[John Shaw]

Seriously though, why would anyone want kids? ESPECIALLY women?

Millennials don't want kids. Good thing too, since we can't afford them. The rest of society is just gonna have to deal with that.

 

[Unkotare]

Faced with the reality of a future with more old people living longer and fewer young people being born to keep societies afloat, a number of choices will have to be made by most countries. Among these are allowing (if not recruiting) immigrants, particularly those with skills or who are willing to provide services in demand.


The World Can't Afford to Cheat Care Workers

The reasons why there is a shrinking population is because the Left Wingers have convinced generations of women that marriage, motherhood and families are gender oppression, and it is the reason why western civilization is dying.

Or, it's increasingly expensive to raise children in a developed economy.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

What about the fact that in every other way increased populations are a nuisance, be it crowded circumstances which not only are downright annoying, but sometimes downright chaos on the highway, or downright a liability in the case of fires, or in the case of disease spread.

Then there's that it's harder to find for waste disposal, it's harder to find clean water, there's more trash build up, or the fact that it puts pressure on resources, the environment, by both pollution, and expansion into once sheltered eco-systems.

But, UnkoTARDe knows all, yeah sure.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

Among these are allowing (if not recruiting) immigrants, particularly those with skills or who are willing to provide services in demand.


The World Can't Afford to Cheat Care Workers

What about the fact that automation will increasingly make it less likely to need cheap labor, then what?

Just admit it you love immigrants, and hate White people.

There's countries doing rather well with few immigrants, and low birth-rates, like Finland, or Japan.

Oh, it's so bad, except Finland commonly tops the charts as the best, of the best in Europe, and even quite often the World.

 

[JBond]

Faced with the reality of a future with more old people living longer and fewer young people being born to keep societies afloat, a number of choices will have to be made by most countries. Among these are allowing (if not recruiting) immigrants, particularly those with skills or who are willing to provide services in demand.


The World Can't Afford to Cheat Care Workers

I'm confused. First there were going to be too many people, now there are going to be too few? Isn't that a good thing considering all the doom and gloom about jobs disappearing due to tech?

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

Faced with the reality of a future with more old people living longer and fewer young people being born to keep societies afloat, a number of choices will have to be made by most countries. Among these are allowing (if not recruiting) immigrants, particularly those with skills or who are willing to provide services in demand.


The World Can't Afford to Cheat Care Workers

The reasons why there is a shrinking population is because the Left Wingers have convinced generations of women that marriage, motherhood and families are gender oppression, and it is the reason why western civilization is dying.

Or, it's increasingly expensive to raise children in a developed economy.

Don't forget abortion, birth control, and condoms.

While the first is pretty revolting, the last 2 have made perfect sense.

 

[Unkotare]

Seriously though, why would anyone want kids?.....

Because we are human beings, and there is nothing better or more important in life.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

Seriously though, why would anyone want kids?.....

Because we are human beings, and there is nothing better or more important in life.

LOL, sure.

100's of millions of Humans wiped out in the past 100 years by other Humans, and then all the species that are endangered, or went extinct by Human activities.

Go Humans!

 

[Marion Morrison]

Seriously though, why would anyone want kids? ESPECIALLY women?

Millennials don't want kids. Good thing too, since we can't afford them. The rest of society is just gonna have to deal with that.

Ain't gonna be nobody there to take care of your ass when you get old, dipshit.

That's not the way the world was designed to work, not at all.

 

[Unkotare]

Seriously though, why would anyone want kids? ESPECIALLY women?

Millennials don't want kids. Good thing too, since we can't afford them. The rest of society is just gonna have to deal with that.

Really? It used to be that men were expected to become men and behave like men as soon as possible. Then it became kind of self deprecating for adult men to occasionally act in a boyish fashion, to show a lighthearted side. OK, fine, no harm. This eventually developed into adult men almost constantly behaving like children. Now we have supposedly male people openly and shamelessly committed to remaining infants for their entire empty unproductive lives. Maybe all those generations in the past had it right in the first place.

 

[sealybobo]

So strange to hear liberals who once went nuts warning us of "the population bomb" jonesing to find ways to grow more people.

He’s no liberal.

Oh, and you got it backwards. It’s the corporations and republicans who wanted cheap Walmart products that pushed to let illegals in and send jobs to China.

You’re being duped. Half truths are lies

 

[sealybobo]

Faced with the reality of a future with more old people living longer and fewer young people being born to keep societies afloat, a number of choices will have to be made by most countries. Among these are allowing (if not recruiting) immigrants, particularly those with skills or who are willing to provide services in demand.


The World Can't Afford to Cheat Care Workers

The reasons why there is a shrinking population is because the Left Wingers have convinced generations of women that marriage, motherhood and families are gender oppression, and it is the reason why western civilization is dying.

Nonsense. You sent all the good paying manufacturing jobs overseas so high school grads don’t work at gm they work at Walmart. They can’t afford kids.

And college grads are being paid for shit and they have high student loans. How many kids should they have when they finally pay off their loans at 35?

 

[sealybobo]

Seriously though, why would anyone want kids? ESPECIALLY women?

Millennials don't want kids. Good thing too, since we can't afford them. The rest of society is just gonna have to deal with that.

That’s right. My dad got a good paying job at ford. All my friends dads worked at gm and Chrysler. These were great jobs for high school grads. They could have 3-4 kids.

Today kid graduates from college 22 and pays off student loans by 42. That puts off saving for a home.

Not to mention most jobs aren’t 30 year career jobs like our parents jobs were. I can’t have an extra mouth to feed while gw bush is fucking up the economy. And I’m afraid what trumps shits going to do

 

[sealybobo]

What about the fact that in every other way increased populations are a nuisance, be it crowded circumstances which not only are downright annoying, but sometimes downright chaos on the highway, or downright a liability in the case of fires, or in the case of disease spread.

Then there's that it's harder to find for waste disposal, it's harder to find clean water, there's more trash build up, or the fact that it puts pressure on resources, the environment, by both pollution, and expansion into once sheltered eco-systems.

But, UnkoTARDe knows all, yeah sure.

Nailed it!

 

[sealybobo]

Among these are allowing (if not recruiting) immigrants, particularly those with skills or who are willing to provide services in demand.


The World Can't Afford to Cheat Care Workers

What about the fact that automation will increasingly make it less likely to need cheap labor, then what?

Just admit it you love immigrants, and hate White people.

There's countries doing rather well with few immigrants, and low birth-rates, like Finland, or Japan.

Oh, it's so bad, except Finland commonly tops the charts as the best, of the best in Europe, and even quite often the World.

He’s buying into the corporate position that in order to achieve 5% growth we’re going to need either more immigrants or more babies. And he’s right. But I don’t give a damn about growth. I don’t mind a mass shrinkage

 

[sealybobo]

Seriously though, why would anyone want kids?.....

Because we are human beings, and there is nothing better or more important in life.

That’s a lie. The only people who believe that are Catholics who have 5 plus kids. Most people stop having kids after two.

And a lot of women get their degree first making that the most important thing

If having kids was that Important why are people having so few of them?

Thank god for abortion. All those bad women would instead be bad mothers

 

[sealybobo]

Seriously though, why would anyone want kids? ESPECIALLY women?

Millennials don't want kids. Good thing too, since we can't afford them. The rest of society is just gonna have to deal with that.

Ain't gonna be nobody there to take care of your ass when you get old, dipshit.

That's not the way the world was designed to work, not at all.

I have two amazing nephews. They’ll be there for me as much as any son would.

Is that why you had kids to take care of you? Kinda selfish. Lol

The world actually was designed to work a different way and we’ve modified it to suit our needs.

Like what about the salmon who can’t spawn anymore because we built a dam? I’ve seen engineers solution to this. God we are a horrible species. Not the worse in the universe probably but pretty bad. Dinosaurs were better for the planet and ecosystem than we are. Nothing went extinct because dinosaurs took their land away