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I see three primary approaches: 1) Massive social support for child-rearing to essentially bride people to procreate. 2) Liberal immigration policies geared t
by standardUser 2y ago
I see three primary approaches:
1) Massive social support for child-rearing to essentially bride people to procreate.
2) Liberal immigration policies geared towards increasing the working age population and filling in skill gaps.
3) Already being a society that is primarily oriented towards religious orthodoxy.
We've seen many nations try #1, sometimes in ways that are extraordinarily extravagant (especially by US standards of social welfare) and the results have been mild at best, if not entirely insufficient.
We've seen nations such as the US and the UK go for #2 with amazing results. And although that may not be sustainable forever it is certainly sustainable for a few more generations at the very least based on global birth rate trends.
Personally, I want nothing to do with #3 and would never want to live in such a society. I imagine large majorities in developed nations generally agree.
Option #2 still seems like the best bet.
- hnpolices 2y ago[flagged]
- tempestn 2y agoI'm not convinced those are the only options, at least if option 1 is purely economic. I could imagine a society that is more geared toward supporting children and parents, and encouraging parenthood, in other ways. ie. 'parenting as a village' or other things along those lines. Don't know how to transform the society we have into one that looks like that though.
- moltar 2y ago1 is exactly what Denmark does on many levels. From early medical to care to infra to lifestyle. Children are accepted as part of whole life, not as some bothersome nuisance that most western countries treat children as such.
- archagon 2y agoThere’s also 4) some sort of Handmaid’s Tale hellscape where women are essentially forced to reproduce. How long until an authoritarian country decides to try it?