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We western economies have to figure this out or we'll gradually depopulate, or live under fascist governments, or worse. Much of the gains of two-income parent
by barrkel 8y ago
We western economies have to figure this out or we'll gradually depopulate, or live under fascist governments, or worse.
Much of the gains of two-income parents goes into house prices to be closer to good schools - i.e. zero sum competition, while company incentives are to encourage people not to have children, or defer children until too late to maintain population, and essentially stopping the next generation of employees from being born.
And then you mix migration driven by climate change into the mix, and it's very easy for populist politicians to whip up narratives of being overrun, not least because on a historical scale it's true (and of course it's always been true, everywhere has always been in the state of being overrun, with ebbs and flows).
The dynamics here aren't good and it's hard to see how they're going to change any time soon, short of a crisis.
- mc32 8y ago>We western economies have to figure this out or we'll gradually depopulate Except for Japan (probably China when it comes to it), most will import labor. Globalization (in terms of corporations) isn't just about taking jobs overseas it's also about brining people from overseas in (in the US H1Bs for professionals, for example).
- john_moscow 8y ago>And then you mix migration driven by climate change Do you seriously believe the migration is driven by climate change, not by the difference in life quality driven by political/cultural differences?
- zimablue 8y agoWater crisis contributes to Syria/ISIS contributes to migration is one where I think the cause-effect is quite clear, I could be wrong.
- lukeschlather 8y agoDo you seriously believe that climate change isn't a factor? One need look no further than the Maldives for an extreme example, but there are little examples all over. Obviously people migrate for lots of different reasons, but climate change is becoming a serious one for a lot of people.
- john_moscow 8y agoI seriously think that differences between countries in factors like medical care, corruption, education, religious freedom/etc outweigh the climate issues by a huge margin. And climate-driven migration would normally mean moving to a different climate, not trying to offset the ~1 degree Celcius change that is observable as of today.
- din9001 8y agoWhat's with the downvoting here whenever someone dares to mention the actual situation in countries like Germany and the U.K.? Are the limousine leftists unable to handle it? You can control it here, but not (yet) in the voting booth.