Outside of the article the impact of this: without sustaining current levels markets will shrink. States with heavy bloated unsustainable welfarism this will be rather interesting to watch when older voters realize their assets are worth less and governments have to continuously raise taxes to cover pension schemes. Especially as many of those nations already have massive amounts of debt.
Short term immigration can fill gaps (lol right wing populists will surge in popularity most likely) long term though you must somehow get citizens to reproduce.
Side note: countries that don’t have a welfare state and don’t have massive debt can try this cool idea; put into place a welfare state who’s singular goal is reproduction.
dr__professional on
There’s a second graph in the article that shows the continents’ rates over time (from 1950). It’s dropped everywhere, including Africa. I’d be interested in a bigger slice of fertility rates, say over a decade or something, rather than a single year slice.
But it’s all interesting, and the general trend is the same: population growth looks to slow and (probably?) reverse in the next century or so (based on 7 decades’ worth of trends).
TF_dia on
Now real talk, what scares me is not the drop in fertility itself but how some countries will react to it. We already have conversations even on here about how conscription on men is necessary and that the state and society should actually have certain demands and expectations of its citizens in return of its privileges.
Now imagine 100 years later and we have the same conversation but about women and having children.
I don’t like the future and I only hope AI and automatization makes this problem moot.
5 Comments
Tunisia: 👁👄👁
Submission statement: .
Outside of the article the impact of this: without sustaining current levels markets will shrink. States with heavy bloated unsustainable welfarism this will be rather interesting to watch when older voters realize their assets are worth less and governments have to continuously raise taxes to cover pension schemes. Especially as many of those nations already have massive amounts of debt.
Short term immigration can fill gaps (lol right wing populists will surge in popularity most likely) long term though you must somehow get citizens to reproduce.
Side note: countries that don’t have a welfare state and don’t have massive debt can try this cool idea; put into place a welfare state who’s singular goal is reproduction.
There’s a second graph in the article that shows the continents’ rates over time (from 1950). It’s dropped everywhere, including Africa. I’d be interested in a bigger slice of fertility rates, say over a decade or something, rather than a single year slice.
But it’s all interesting, and the general trend is the same: population growth looks to slow and (probably?) reverse in the next century or so (based on 7 decades’ worth of trends).
Now real talk, what scares me is not the drop in fertility itself but how some countries will react to it. We already have conversations even on here about how conscription on men is necessary and that the state and society should actually have certain demands and expectations of its citizens in return of its privileges.
Now imagine 100 years later and we have the same conversation but about women and having children.
I don’t like the future and I only hope AI and automatization makes this problem moot.
Do it by population not count