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What’s the reason to having more people and children? It’s to “grow the economy”. Is constant growth sustainable?
by rad_gruchalski 5y ago
What’s the reason to having more people and children? It’s to “grow the economy”. Is constant growth sustainable?
- HWR_14 5y agoIf we don't need them we won't subsidize them. The OP seems to think we'll need to subsidize children more for some reason.
- petre 5y agoLook at Japan and you'll see the reason. Aging population.
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoWhich is not good for economy. I understand. So more children are needed to support the aging population in the future. My question still stands: is this sustainable indefinitely?
- HWR_14 5y ago> My question still stands: is this sustainable indefinitely? I mean, if on one side we have exponential growth, and on the other we have no children leading to no one to support seniors, surely there is a middle ground where the right number of children are born each year.
- petre 5y agoChina tried with the one child policy and debalanced its population's structure, ending up with too many men. On the other hand in Japan and elsewhere in developed countries women postpone having kids until in their in their 30s, because they're involved in the workforce. So, one either ends up with exponential population growth or with the elderly working until they die and younger people postponing having chindren until mid age (with all the associated health issues, both for the mother and th child) or not having children at all. It's rather hard if not impossible to keep a middle ground. As a woman one probably has to make a choice between bearing children after you finish college or getting a degree and joining the workforce. Guess what most women's choice is?