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Why “people of Africa”?
by jelliclesfarm 5y ago
Why “people of Africa”?
- Someone 5y agoSub-Saharan Africa is where the population boom is. Comparisons: - https://www.populationpyramid.net/africa/2020/ https://www.populationpyramid.net/africa/2020/ - https://www.populationpyramid.net/asia/2020/ https://www.populationpyramid.net/asia/2020/ - https://www.populationpyramid.net/europe/2020/ https://www.populationpyramid.net/europe/2020/ (Northern America is still growing: https://www.populationpyramid.net/northern-america/2020/ https://www.populationpyramid.net/northern-america/2020/)
- Bancakes 5y agoYes and why arbitrarily constrain yourself to Africa. Why not China? Why not the top 10% of each country
- drivebycomment 5y agoChina's population growth has already mostly stopped. In 2021, they had 0.03% growth. https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/china-population https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/china-population Focusing on Africa isn't arbitrary. They are where the majority of future human population growth will be coming from.
- Bancakes 5y agoAgain I ask, why do you want "booming" populations and not "work-ready, healthy" populations, aka 1sigma upwards?
- Someone 5y agoAre you saying Africans aren’t “work-ready, healthy”? I guess you mean “highly educated” I would think that, in aging populations, many of the jobs most difficult to fulfill by count would be in service jobs (care homes, nursing, Uber eats cyclists, bus drivers, etc) There likely will be millions of people in Africa willing to take on such a job and capable of doing so. Also, chances will be higher that those people would want to emigrate than, say, Chinese nurses, as there will already be plenty of demand in China.
- BlueMatter5 5y ago[flagged]
- Nesco 5y agoFor a part maybe, but some of the proponents of mass migration truly analyse the situation only through the economic lens, as for them a civilisation is reducible to its economy. They also seem to lack the basic mathematical notion that one doesn’t add things that are different in nature: “on additionne pas des choux et des carottes”. For them a population size is a population size with no thought given to the underlying composition of the population. Which is the main reason all their mental models on this particular topic are often so wrong in practice
- ed3202 5y ago
- shmageggy 5y agoWhat a bizzare analogy and false equivalence. Where indigenous populations are declining, it's mostly due to the consequences of the global economic system that ethnic Europeans participate in, as well as outright persecution and colonialism. We already are replacing them.
- BlueMatter5 5y ago[flagged]
- dang 5y ago"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html