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> Before, society grew with the average working age person only needing to half support an elderly retiree. Now, that same working age person will need to suppo
by grog454 4y ago
> Before, society grew with the average working age person only needing to half support an elderly retiree. Now, that same working age person will need to support more than 2 elderly retirees themselves, over 4 times the resources.
There's a scary implication. If having to support more elderly causes one to produce less offspring, we have a positive feedback loop resulting in population collapse.
- klipt 4y agoOr the young people will just decide to abandon their elderly to cheap low quality nursing homes. Isn't that how it works in many countries?
- Auracle 4y agoI don’t know about other countries, but they certainly aren’t cheap in the United States.
- JetAlone 4y agoYes, and immigration almost always brings tension because of cultural clash. I think a lot of people in developed countries voluntarily or involuntarily adopt a psychological willingness to not have kids and let their culture collapse because the emotional distress of a life in a post-growth world. A world where your freedoms, privacy, and economic opportunities are shrinking, to extract temporary value and stability for the upper class, out of you and your labour/compliance. The only worldly way out of it is to basically step on the others while going up to implement these changes, which feels horrible to a naturally empathic creature like man. It's a cursed state of being.