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Less demographically challenged countries are not a renewable resource. The chickens will come home to roost at some point. Sure you can bet on someone else doi
by pharke 6y ago
Less demographically challenged countries are not a renewable resource. The chickens will come home to roost at some point. Sure you can bet on someone else doing the work to mitigate that problem but a lot of people are doing just that and leaving these problems untended and unsolved. Progress and easy living are not inevitable, everyone has to put the work in for things to continue improving.
- hermitcrab 6y ago>Less demographically challenged countries are not a renewable resource. At the moment, poor people who are prepared to migrate to richer countries to get a chance at a better life are very much a renewable resource. They just keep coming. Hopefully we will move to a fairer world where this isn't the case, but I don't see that happening any time soon.
- pharke 6y agoI meant that the largest (by population) countries with high birthrates are quickly entering the same demographic situation as mentioned in the article. They are being closely followed by another host of countries as rapid industrialization/modernization moves on down the line. The pool of people willing to migrate for economic reasons is shrinking. Meanwhile, we are not much closer to solving the problems that cheap overseas labour and cheap imported labour were keeping at bay. That curse even seems to be passing on to the countries where we used to draw our labour from meaning that we are now competing with them for immigrants, migrant workers, and outsourced labour. It's a fiendish game of musical chairs.