Some sober reading for a Monday morning:
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Some sober reading for a Monday morning:
"Fertility is falling everywhere, in rich countries with low fertility rates and poor countries where it is comparatively high. Two-thirds of the global population lives in countries where fertility is below the replacement rate."
#Population #Future #AgingPopulation
https://eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/is-destiny-about-to-reach-us -
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Some sober reading for a Monday morning:
"Fertility is falling everywhere, in rich countries with low fertility rates and poor countries where it is comparatively high. Two-thirds of the global population lives in countries where fertility is below the replacement rate."
#Population #Future #AgingPopulation
https://eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/is-destiny-about-to-reach-usReading past the premise that fallibg birth rates are bad, it turns out that falling birth rates are bad for the economy:
> It takes 20 years or more for kids to start contributing economically.
The problem is capitalism, and treating people (kids) merely as a labour source for the economy (ie. rich people's yachts).
Is destiny about to reach us?
What happens when we have too few kids.
(eduardoelreportero.substack.com)
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Reading past the premise that fallibg birth rates are bad, it turns out that falling birth rates are bad for the economy:
> It takes 20 years or more for kids to start contributing economically.
The problem is capitalism, and treating people (kids) merely as a labour source for the economy (ie. rich people's yachts).
Is destiny about to reach us?
What happens when we have too few kids.
(eduardoelreportero.substack.com)
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