Not looking good. 
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They need immigrants
Singapore had the same problem
Great opportunity for quality funeral services.
This seems to have been an inevitable problem in economically developed regions throughout history.
It’s far from economically developed where I live. Zero opportunities here. Nobody stays around.
No chance is a serious problem.
After the extreme division of labor in industrial society, it is difficult for people in economically developed areas to support themselves and enjoy a comfortable life. It was impossible to go back to farming and raising a family. Many people would not consider marriage and children, and life has made him feel very difficult. The thought of the next generation being squeezed by the machinery of this giant industrial society. More and more people commit suicide and do not marry and do not struggle. Many give up on having children. This is also the natural resistance of human nature to the development of industrial society.
This may be a precursor to a change in the future direction of human development.
It can be brutal to start and maintain a family, when both parents work full-time, because you have to move close to were both can get a good job and don't have a long commute, and then your fertility gets crushed by living costs and crowding.
Similar patterns occuring almost everywhere 😔
For Keynesian economics (“growing economic” ) is a disaster.
For Austrian economics is totally fine.
Is an equilibrium in all things .
JPY and KR just ahead of the curve I suppose, as an African we don't have this problem, we're the baby making factory of the world right now
I don’t actually get why this is a problem. We’ve got 8 billion people right now. We don’t need that many people to run the economy. As new tech continues to develop we get more productive. If we steadily grow in productivity we can produce the same economic output with fewer people. The income and wealth per capita goes up. In the case of Japan their GDP is flat but the the Japanese people are better off because that same GDP is spread out to fewer people.
With the environmental impact of humanity, it’d be a lot lower with 2 billion instead of 8 billion people but we could have higher quality of living.
And isn’t this the best way to reduce population? Slowly through people having fewer kids? Want to have a lot of kids. Go for it. Most women are choosing fewer kids as they get more economic and social power. It’s a hell of a lot better than China’s one child policy, disease, war, or famine.
Yes we need to pay people to take care of the elderly. But we could do that the way Singapore does it. They don’t tend to put the elderly in institutional care. Instead they pay family members to take care of their elderly. Just like raising kids in a family is be than an orphanage, or other group child raising like happens in some christian communes and kibbutzes. Most people provide better care of their parents and grandparents than any nurse in an institution could. And it’s a hell of a lot cheaper, it’s just there is no companies pushing for these polices like there is for care homes.
We can handle massive reductions in population over a few generations humanely without destroying the economy.
The problem is the top/ruler class will not release their resources to normal classes. Majority of economical growth is enjoyed by the top class.
More people == more innovations, more productivity == more human flourishing and faster development
Destruction of natural normal family life via fiat. Before the Federal reserve existed most homes were purchased with cash, every generation of families lived together, and people didn't move from home to home. They built an expanded their own home with their own proof of work. A home wasn't a vain thing.
Why would we want fewer people? Greater genetic diversity, more brains...who knows where the next Einstein or Hawkins comes from...who knows what random mutation is going to be beneficial to humanities survival...we need many many more humans.
I’m pretty sure there are millions of Einsteins who are trapped in poverty or don’t have a champion like Einstein’s mom. Have you read the story of what his mom did to get him educated. It’s epic.
And Hawkins would have died of ALS if he wasn’t incredibly well supported by family, private money, and the UK NHS. He’s incredibly rare in that he’s lived in to his 70’s only because of constant 27/7 care.
We can be incredibly innovative if we support the people we have. If everyone had access to the support we provided the Einsteins or Hawkins of the world we be much more innovative with 2 billion people.
We need more people to be able to colonize space. Either through technological hyperdevelopment that leads to transhumanism (the option I think the most probable) or through sheer biological means. In the first case because we simply need more brainpower to reach such technological level, and in the second also because only a tiny fraction of us will ever be able to leave.
This way we are really the last generation
Marriages and births usually track because married women tend to have more children.
Marriage is always the pivot factor.
and the fear of getting married comes from Fiat and also Western Roman divorce laws.
Curious to see divorces in the same graph
The scenario is bleak AF. How can human civilization thrive without human?
#siamstr
We are in a civilization decline.
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An economy is a biological ecosystem that can only support a specific population, no more and no less.
Azul: mortes
Vermelho: nascimentos
Roxo: casamentos
Nós somos o declínio da civilização!
#memesbr #pipo
Marriage and kids are super underrated imho. Definitely most fun and meaningful thing I’ve done. Sure it can be stressful but anything worthwhile takes some effort.
We are going extinct in a microsecond
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Under appreciated trend .. we are contracting and that is ok .. unless say you happen to design your whole global monetary system based on growth .. which is ultimately underpinned by the quantity of people
the fiat system is largely to blame for this. squeezing the hope and life out of people. hence why so many people feel it's just too expensive to even think about kids