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Why incentivize people to have children when there is no shortage of them?
by ido 10y ago
Why incentivize people to have children when there is no shortage of them?
- peterbraden 10y agoActually, in many Western countries there is, much of Europe for example. Sustainable demographics are why there are subsidies for having children in Italy for example.
- ido 10y agoI live in Germany, the country with the lowest birth rate in the world. The population is still slowly growing due to immigration. Even once the developing countries reduce fertility below replacement (which will not happen for a long time yet) with increasing life spans and improving medicine the world's population will still continue growing(slow growth is still projected in the year 2100), then stagnate and then one day very far from today slowly decline... but it will still take centuries to reach the population levels of the early 20th Century (only reached 2 billion people in 1927). In the meanwhile we have too many, not too few, people around.
- carsongross 10y agoIdiocracy.