Countries like Japan and Singapore have provided all sorts of incentives, to no avail. Europe has more social benefits than America - yet people are reproducing less and less. It also becomes a philosophical question. People these days have different mindsets compared to ancestors.
So you're just saying that countries that have incentives are experiencing lower rates? How do you know the rate wouldn't have been even lower had those programs not been in place? You have show a study were they control for other factors and compare with and without such incentives, or before/after.
Japan has a famously hostile and demanding work culture, I'm surprised anyone have kids there at all..
Solar cells consume fossil fuel energy to make. When enough are made they can break even and then go on to surplus. Robots can do the same. They pay for themselves in the long run. They can become a self replicating force like a virus as long as the universe is warm. Maybe someday they will know the how of where all the heat came from in the first place.And who is going to pay for these all wonderful robots? The robots themselves?
You need to explain this one.
As a society we can’t afford to spend $500k to keep granny alive for another week or two. There is no mechanism to keep costs in control. Also longevity shouldnt be the sole focus but rather quality of life. We need to co e to grips with the fact that it’s ok to die.
As a society we can’t afford to spend $500k to keep granny alive for another week or two. There is no mechanism to keep costs in control. Also longevity shouldnt be the sole focus but rather quality of life. We need to co e to grips with the fact that it’s ok to die.
ok so now death panels are ok?
Why do we need more people? Is there some goal to reach to win? Better to maintain a number that doesnt put a strain on resources then to breed like rabbits just cause?
Have more Babies, but first we need to cut your Wages.
capitalism requires constant growth and consumption. basically we evolved wrong and this is what we are. Im sure some other sentient being out there will get it right before the heat death of the universe.
I think to reproduce is human being’s primordial instinct. There is no because to it
I'm 43 and you always think that wow, I'd like to be 20 years old again knowing what I know now. And of course I do, but I want to stipulate that I be 20 years old again back when I was 20, not now. I think this youngest generation is fucked, through no fault of their own.
I think to reproduce is human being’s primordial instinct. There is no because to it
Do you think a 43 year old at that time would have said the same thing?
Money is a contributing criterion to reproduction, which is distinctly different from being "the main critereon." Further, it is a contributing criterion to responsible reproduction, but not so much to irresponsible reproduction. I'd argue that if there were a "main criterion" it would be ignorance, something conservatives have in spades.If money was the main criterion for reproduction, then conservative people wouldn't have so many children as they do. Because I am told conservatives are greedy and selfish. Sorry I got drawn into this again...was hoping for a politics free conversation
Everyone knows this but Republicans choose to deny it. Without immigrants, our farming would be insanely expensive because those immigrants work for dirt cheap pay and work long hours.I thought this was interesting, from the article. The last term made me smile
There is no doubt that Mexicans work a lot harder than native born people. How many white or black people can do construction work in brutal heat
---Opponents advance a host of other, sometimes contradictory arguments to make their case. Immigrants, they say, are lazy and soak up massive amounts of welfare even while they are willing to work harder and for less money than natives (a paradox known as "Schrodinger's Immigrant").
In the next three decades, there will be more people over 65 than under 18. That is a scary prospect any way you look at it. The fertility rate is at its lowest since tracking of it began a century ago.As examples of various Asian countries show, there are no amount of incentives that the govt can give for people to reproduce more. Just doesn't work that way.
More immigrants are needed. The libertarian position of course is open borders, though I personally don't quite agree with that. I do think a lot more legal immigrants are needed.
But its ironic that the more immigrants are needed, the more the sentiment is against that. Those who oppose non-European immigrants used to be a minor slice of the Republican party but now pretty much seem to control it. Instead of increase, they want to drastically reduce legal immigration, which is quite astonishing. Not to mention myopic. Does anyone actually want a dark Japan like future for America, where people are dressing dogs in baby clothes and putting them in strollers.
America Needs Immigrants Now More Than Ever
From falling birthrates to labor shortages, if you want to make America great again, the economic case for opening borders has never been stronger.
In the next three decades, there will be more people over 65 than under 18. That is a scary prospect any way you look at it. The fertility rate is at its lowest since tracking of it began a century ago.As examples of various Asian countries show, there are no amount of incentives that the govt can give for people to reproduce more. Just doesn't work that way.
More immigrants are needed. The libertarian position of course is open borders, though I personally don't quite agree with that. I do think a lot more legal immigrants are needed.
But its ironic that the more immigrants are needed, the more the sentiment is against that. Those who oppose non-European immigrants used to be a minor slice of the Republican party but now pretty much seem to control it. Instead of increase, they want to drastically reduce legal immigration, which is quite astonishing. Not to mention myopic. Does anyone actually want a dark Japan like future for America, where people are dressing dogs in baby clothes and putting them in strollers.
America Needs Immigrants Now More Than Ever
From falling birthrates to labor shortages, if you want to make America great again, the economic case for opening borders has never been stronger.
Ok, so who will buy the products these machines create if people don't have money themselves? Some say, govt will give basic income. But where will the govt get money from? It can't work that way
False. Immigration is the number 1 indication of a leading country. Case in point, why don't you move to Japan? Or any other nation where immogranys don't want to go....exactly.Economists in the 50s were saying by 1970 we'd have a fully mechanized agricultural industry due to the trends back then...then we took in tens of millions of immigrants and the cratering wages in agriculture has postponed large amounts of mechanization for nearly 50 years. Truth is there is no such thing as a dark future, everything is about tradeoffs. Japan is a much nicer country to live in the than the U.S., they've dealt with demographic change with technology which has made it a highly technologically advanced society. They've automated a lot of things of which we dont do here because low wages stalls automation--which additionally increases our carbon footprint.
Immigration is not a absolute good.
False. Immigration is the number 1 indication of a leading country. Case in point, why don't you move to Japan? Or any other nation where immogranys don't want to go....exactly.