Is The U.S. Running Out Of People?
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2021
- The US is facing an aging population, falling birth rate and economic recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic. These issues will have huge implications on the size of the workforce and the consumer base. Watch the video to find out why America could be confronting an underpopulation problem and what business leaders and policymakers can do about it.
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Why The U.S. Population Is Shrinking
Maybe it's because the current generation realizes that you shouldn't have children if you can't afford them. Hell, I have two jobs and _still_ can't even afford the _cheapest_ apartments in my area.
Unfortunately, you can't expect the boomers who produced this to actually think about things rationally and understand them. After all, they're saying women need to have 2.1 children. You can't have 0.1 of a child.
@@chironOwlglass 2.1 is an average
You can always move. That's what most people do.
@@calcrappie8507 But then there's the whole deal where moving costs money; and there is no guarantee that the area you move to will have jobs that pay as much as the area you were in before or any jobs available at all :/
@@nuelle2361 Moving involves costs, but if the tradeoff is a place where home ownership or taxes are cheaper, it might be worth it. Yes, salary may be less but so is the cost of living. The internet is full of information on different locations/employment etc. Some areas pre-Covid (primarily Midwest) had very low unemployment with jobs readily available.
Better to have no children than to have no money and blame your children.
Agree!!!
you won't have any money when you retire, no tax payers means no pension, you'll die o nthe streets in pain and misery as you get laid off in old age and get no pension.
@@Immortal_Liberty R O B O T S
Preach it
@@Immortal_Liberty not if you start putting money aside now for retirement. I have a 401K and other investments.
America: *makes it nearly impossible for most people to be financially stable*
Also America: guys, why aren’t you having kids? 😕
They do, 2.1 per family is the average…it’s a globalization issue.. as Karl Max theorize: capital will destroy it self..
"America: makes it nearly impossible for most people to be financially stable
Also America: guys, why aren’t you having kids? 😕"
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The best US economy we had was between1950 sand 1970s(postwar economic growth, then started to slowdown in 1980 with Reaganomics), coincide to the years baby boomers came out( it was also the peak time of pop music, rock'n roll).
When the population growth is high(illegal immigration also high) it usually means high economic growth.
Another proof that Trump is very, very stupid.
1980 was also the time the rich started getting richer but nobody saw the connection the slow economy.
All empires(from Rome to the US) in the past fell because of inequality.
Doesn't stop the epidemic of many out of wedlock kids in inner city areas. Finances? Who cares when the government will pay a (poor) woman to have 5 kids?
Obama and then Biden, ruined America forever.
@@allgoo1990 we don’t need immegrants to make our economy good we can slow down we don’t need to grow forever
“We need more consumers!”
Disgusting.
yeah
Agreed lol what world we live in huh
sorry if you don't like how the economy works.
@YMX cringe
@@cringelord7542 name checks out
" oh no, the rich are running out of poor people to steal from in the future ".
We need more poor so the rich can stay rich. But now everyone can educate on the internet and they know that they're slaves for us.
@@alexwayne163 yet they are the ones who control information we receive ...hmmmmm... this couldn't possibly be a bad idea
Now that's a comment I can get behind.
pay attention they will bring in immigrant's from countries with better education system to come in and consume.
GibbyGahWhayBow
Alternate title: Is the US running out of peasants that work for corporations?
Lol
Answer, No we will import more
@@henrytoledo4103, exactly. I’m getting so tired of this corporate propaganda.
Spot on!
lol so true!!
I grew up in a single parent home with 2 siblings. My mom made $30k a year to support all of us and I didn’t have enough food to eat sometimes, clothes were always too small, couldn’t do extracurriculars, often unsupervised, etc. I did GREAT in school and everyone called me the “smart kid” but ultimately could not afford college even with scholarships causing me to move to half time. It’s taken me yeaaaaars going to college and 40k in debt. I’m just now graduating 8 years after high school. I’ve slept in my car because I couldn’t afford rent and went a full day without food to afford books. Why in the 🤬 would anyone want to continue that cycle?!
I’m getting out of poverty and having ONE kid. I’m tired of being at the bottom. Also, I should be about 30 by the time I’m set up financially to buy a house and have a child. I’ve cried about this several times because I want a kid so bad but refuse to have one when I can’t open up all the doors I want to for them. They deserve a chance.
I also have suicidal thought. 🙁
@@JustinWilliams-ed2ug It's the same for me, I'm 21, and let's just say that life wasn't always the best. I remember when I was a kid, there were times where we didn't have anything to eat. And worse, that's why I will be successful no matter what. Life is not fair, we know this, but we don't have to continue a pointless cycle like that. Single and childfree is where I want be.
Some great people have been born in to some dire circumstances and came out on top. It’s what drives them to do better and work hard. Stay positive because it does get better but not if you expose yourself to negative thoughts and emotions. Move away from that asap. Hard work wins, if you’re not winning at the most basic level you’re not working hard enough. Plain and simple. Change your environment around you do whatever it takes because you may think I’m crazy but one day I hope you realize your worth by working hard and leaving this place a little better than when you arrived.
Yet 50000 or more of your parent's generation died in Viet Nam and you think you got it bad?
And if you simply ignored college and learned a trade you might already have that house.
Massive extremist wealth & power inequality & the status quo defended by conservatives. So then the extremist right has NO right to whine or cry or complain when people of ANY age fight back by not having kids. Unfortunately, conservatives have always existed. There is no particular generation that is more guilty than another.
I think it's interesting how an argument for children being born is "what if they become the person that cures cancer or something" but when they don't live up to that potential, they are practically discarded and not treated with so much hope and/or value. Look at how many kids currently exist in the foster care system, in adoption agencies, in homeless shelters, etc. This is also happening at a faster rate. Why would I want to bring a child into this world where the likelihood of them falling into systems that essentially scar them is so high? If there's no safety net now and none being talked about why would I want to take that risk for them? One in which a child has no decision for? As kids we saw how adults were treated and we are currently being treated the same way, if not worst. There's a clear trend of things just GETTING WORST. No motivation to bring a child into this world other than for selfish reasons.
Everything is too expensive and the soul draining jobs still don’t pay enough. No reason to bring kids into a world of poverty and stress.
Soul draining is a compliment.
"Soul draining jobs" could not be expressed in a more exact way! But you forgot that the world seems to be, now more than ever, full of hatred and selfishness = sad
Good evaluation
The kid you raise could inspire or think of the change necessary to address those issues. You never know
@@Cmorrison626 To raise this kid maybe she'll need other soul draining job and eat less, not being able to pay rent, and all the stuff we already know. It's not that easy. When the economy is decaying no one wants to give birth, the only children to be born will be the accidental ones.
Alt title: " Rich people try to persuade the poor to pop out more consumers to buy their product's"
for real... this whole video was just avoiding the real problem. so slimy of them.
Lol where do you get this from? What rich people? CNBC? Lol
No problem with that: as long as the rich don't force the poor to pay for them.
@@theultimatereductionist7592 they already do, in the form of underpaid labour.
More like more children to fight their Future wars.
My wife and I have been married 16 years, we talked about kids maybe 5-6 years years ago. We have always been more than financially stable, the issue is: why in the world would you want to have kids in this country right now?
I worked at a Plant where having a family was seen as a problem. We worked 12 hour swing shifts 60-84 hrs a week. Parents eventually quit and the only employees left were single young men.
I am STRUGGLING to support myself why tf would I want a child to go through worst than this?
Meanwhile in Afghanistan with a fertility rate of 4.5, each woman is having 5 kids on average!!!....Somalia 6 kids average..
@@ameyas7726 Just shows they don't think things through!!
@@aarone1777 There's a correlation between underdeveloped countries and high fertility rate. It's not because they don't things through.
Exactly
Solution by dems. Open borders to flood the country with ms 13.
Biden is the man
Nance is the woman
Kamala is president
None of which help you at all.
Sorry guess its times up.
People voted for biden.
Americans now have the government they deserve.
@@ameyas7726 ahahahahahahah
He who uses soap daily will be stripped of vitamin D.
What effect does it have?
Causes baldness
Lowers testosterone.
Always tired
Cant focus.
Sound familiar?
Birth rate is on a decline because it’s so hard to even be an independent adult these days. How could I afford a kid if most of my income goes to rent and taxes?
moved in Van 4 years ago, life is amazing
Planned parenthood did their job well
@@Bekssss i miss the van life but I had the luck of twins and wouldn't want the classism of the cops to seep into some sort of CPS situation. Maybe I will spring for an RV sometime.
America isn't the land of family values; it's the land of families unvalued. Cost of healthcare and housing are high. Job security is poor. Many companies have gone bankrupt during the pandemic, leaving many people scrambling for whatever scraps they can get like slave-wave gig economy work. The gov't provides very few incentives or support to have children. Younger generations have also become more hedonistic, easily bored, socially disposable--dating sites and social media have made it easier to have a conveyer belt of acquaintances, and hyper-focused on chasing easy to obtain short-term happy neurotransmitter boosts. Having kids is a major drag on their hedonistic and overstimulated lives they're mired in.
The US is unfortunately affected by many negative aspects of US-style conservatism and liberalism that synergistically squander birthrates. Conservatives fight tooth and nail to provide the skimpiest social safety and various services that allow families to flourish or even be started; to you super woke progressives, yeah yeah I know, "starting family" taken literally doesn't make sense creating a "family" doesn't require having children). Liberals don't only tolerate "alternative" lifestyles that are associated with lower birth rates with , they actively promote it. Hook up culture, polyamory, birth control, misandry, and other such things facilitate hedonism while having children is a roadblock to it
@@jzen1455 very beautifully worded nonsense
There is no point to bring new children, new souls, into this goddamn planet, to experience the same suffering, torment, endless problem. Life is pointless, meaningless, since there is no true goal and all of us will die
Yes. "Life is an unprofitable disturbance to the peaceful calmness of non existence." (The quote is not mine.)
I’d rather travel the world than be stuck at home with a damn kid
IF the world was not cutthroat, I would have kids. But it is, so I agree! Traveling would have more value since experiencing peace of mind is better.
Younger generation can't afford to move out of parents home even if they have a job. How are they going to have kids????
High rents and low wage
It's not because they can't afford it's Bec they have no work ethic. They don't get jobs as young teens and try to get jobs to pay their way through college. They just sit at home till it's time to get married or move out and by then there's no work ethic Bec they never worked a real day in their life. Income has not changed from 60 years ago. The housing market has increased at a less than a 1% increase from 60 years ago in comparison with salary. Salary and housing has gone up with inflation at an almost equal rate from 60 years ago as well as cost of goods. The difference is we have stupid ppl who go to colleges they can't afford to get a degree that is pointless like liberal arts and can't get a paying job and has debt and credit card debt. That's the difference between the generations. Older generation didnt spendd what they couldn't afford. We don't have more expensive things. We simply have MORE things. You don't NEED an iPhone. A flip phone would suffice. Don't need a desktop, laptop, tablet, smart watch, phone etc go back 69 years ago and they were fine with a typewriter
@@pepperdeez Ok, boomer. Whatever you say.
@@Neo1708. ah yes, and there's that level of dismissive disrespect for all dissenting opinions we've all come to expect.
@Kayla I was born late 90s clown. Just because someone is educated and knows basic rules of economics and understands inflation rates doesn't make me a boomer. Maybe open a book instead of UA-cam clown
When the current generation has no money and can’t get a leg up, they won’t have children.
@Kate Simpson holy hell.......how do you manage?
@@Dataisthetruth Onlyfans maybe
@@saveriannathan1415 she said she has no money. Honestly I wouldn’t blame her if she started an only fans lol.
what worries me is that the poorest people tend to spawn the most children.
The next generation is all on Twitch giving their paychecks to e-thots
I'm 35 and 290k in student loan debt. Kids will never be in the cards for me. I can't even afford to buy a home.
"Mama's baby, Papa's maybe." The old saying is still relevant. My mom was extremely open and clear with me growing up, that at the end of the day, women are the primary caretakers of children so only have as many as you can afford to have by yourself in case something happens. I'm in my late 30s and know so many women who don't have kids yet or want more and can't afford it. Applies to married couples as well. With student loans and the rising costs of living many people are only having 1-2 kids. Also, finding a suitable partner is challenging.
Is the U.S. running out of people? Yea, Smart people.
I am indian and here poverty is very much high compare to other nations. But people still producing babies without second thought even educated persons having two children.
I am like wtf is going on in my country.
truth poor people have more children then smart and wealthy people.
Yeah. That's why Biden gets to be president
@@moneyparhar Lmao is that why the highly educated heavily skew democratic?
@@bamlakbekele6494 don’t forget more student loan debt
This country is to expensive to have children.
"too" 😒😒😒
Pretty much sums it up. Reason is kids are way to expensive to maintain.
@@smartbaba1321 #DefundGrammarNazis
But at the same time the US drives big gas guzzlers, living in giant houses and hates the so called European "communism".
Expensive, cause of bailouts and inflations no signs of our government slowing down
I thought progress and automation meant we would need fewer and fewer people in the workforce to maintain an aging population with a similar standard of living.
Apparently not, since the 1% are the ones hoarding a bigger slice of the pie every passing year.
I’m in my 30s and I’m worried about my rent or being priced out of where I live. How can I afford a family if I can’t even take care of basic needs.
What they are trying to say is that we are running out of economically indentured servants.
Yes
100%
I'm not having a child just to starve with me.
Responsible choice
agreed.
Living in Vietnam is cheaper
@unarmed blackman So u go have children then and feed the system that despises u with some more modern slaves 😉
@unarmed blackman I get emails from Nigeria sometimes, they tell me to deposit some money for them... like couple millions.. I think they are rich over there, hence they have no problem having kids..
Population decline should be celebrated not to be worried about.
"We need more wage slaves!"
Can't wait to have a kid. He'll love his job at the Amazon warehouse
😆😭😅soon the robots will take over anyway...
This kind of "think first, have kids later" mentality is going to make you extinct....stupid people "have kids first, think later"...or maybe they are the smart ones after all!!!
@@ameyas7726 yeah-yeah, make more kids for government and don’t think about yourself, they’ll appreciate that
@@ameyas7726
Maybe widespread ocean plastic pollution is creating micro-plastics in all water supplies. Inhibiting natural ability get pregnant.
Lowering fertility rates enough to make having children impossible.
Effectively eliminating human beings from planet earth.
Ya; shipping packages of broken dreams to households!
"Obedient workers, that's what they want obedient workers" - George Carlin
That's why they love women.
Sadly being obedient isn't enough anymore they really out here enslaving people and paying less then required to live well.... just struggling
george carlin: they dont want people smart enough sitting around the kitchen table figuring out they've been screwed by a system that threw them overboard 30 fking yrs ago
Women and defective Women aka Beta Male simps.
@@JKDstocks Thank you!
"The single biggest power group going forward are older women"
So true, my mom get my fathers social security since he died and she gets a pension from her former employer. Both of these forms of payment come out to MORE than I make working 40+ hrs a week! She also lives in a house purchased for under 200k that is now worth close to a million dollars and the mortgage is paid off...
Fewer people is great...Less traffic, less pollution, less competition for jobs, cheaper rent, higher wages (hopefully) and much, much more...Why bring kids into this world when we are at the brink of WW3 and global warming is going to get even worse ?? Why bring kids into this world when there is a shortage of baby formula ??...So, is about time mother Earth has a break from all our shenanigans !!!
We shouldn’t be having children we can’t care for. We shouldn’t be having children if we ourselves aren’t stable. Don’t have kids if you cannot care for them
then no nobody would ever have kids because most pregnancies come at unwanted times when the couple is financially unstable yet we have all managed to be raised and taken care of and in my case my parents weren't stable and couldn't give me much of anything but i am extremely grateful for everything they did manage to give me
Angry Boomer: If you can't afford children, kid, then don't have them.
Millennial: OK.
Angry Boomer: Then who is going to fund my Social Security?
Millennial: Not my problem. I will never be able to retire.
@@israel7valdiviez17 i mean if you wanna have children at unwanted times go off who am I to tell you no. I just think children should be born into families who want them and are prepared for them, because otherwise it can destroy their life
@@Nata-rb4vc my point is that kids always come at unwanted times people are never prepared for kids but i think people should be taught morally that money and everything else should not play a factor in wether or not to have children i think all mentally capable people should plan to have some offspring if they can because the way many people go now a days is saying they dont want kids cus they rather have money and i mean what kind of human being is that its not morally right
@@israel7valdiviez17 but if you can’t afford to feed your child and they get put into foster care how is that okay? Women should be able to have bodily autonomy like men do, we can’t just abandon children and lie that they aren’t ours like men can. If I don’t want to have children (which I really really don’t, haven’t since I was 10) that’s between me and my partner. Having kids at all in the first place is a choice, if you want kids and know you can care for them, go ham, but if you can’t you’re damning that child to a life of poverty, poor education, negligent parents, and a system that is too overwhelmed to help them. Children deserve better parents than someone like me would make. That’s why I think we should be careful about bringing new lives into the world, they need so much and some people just can’t give that.
We can't afford anything anymore. If I could barely take care of myself, how do you think I'd take care of a child?
Geee.....marriage.
@@northsouth8884 Even a two income couple can't make enough $$$ to afford having just 1 kid these days.
@@kansasthunderman1 Breeders are eligible for MANY government subsidies. Non-breeders are basically paying others to bear children. Not that there's a people shortage.
Geez africa is rich then
@@kansasthunderman1 If two parents are both working solid consistent jobs at least the median income and not living in like ny, sf, etc how could they not? What is the money being spent on besides basic neccessities?
When I told my father my wife was pregnant he told me if he had to do it over he would of never had kids..
If my father told me this, imagine what other parents said to their kids
The real reason they overturned Roe vs Wade.
Yep so Population can grow
Most of my friends and I are hitting our 30s. Most are still working on massive student loans and can’t afford a house, retirement, or healthcare. People can’t responsibly think about making children if they can barely keep themselves stable.
Sadly very true
It's not sad, it's better for the damn planet in the long run, now I understand why they made abortion illegal, it's all about continuing their reign of terror on the public, without more people to rob they suddenly realize thier lifestyles are unsustainable, let's all go get fixed! They clearly just want our money and will tell us/force us to give it to them, but if no one is around they have nobody to strong arm.
@@lightpropulsionguy maybe you should tell China and India. 2 countries that have been in our ass about Air pollution when they consume more food which leads too tons more waste. So on and so forth. These 2 countries use population diagrams to show there population to their pollution which in that case their lower. About over all far more dangerous to the planet.
Exactly right but the reason why is mostly undeniably man-made. Most likely because of government or authoritative artificial intervention which interrupts the cycle of individuals. Colleges have become so expensive because for the most part barrier to entry is non-existent thanks to our horrific federal student loans program. Or the fact that the government bailed out the banks in the 2008 recession when naturally they should have gone Under and new businesses would have restructured their investment models to avoid those consequences but instead the risk assessment model has gone all out of wack because Government intervened. It's why the stock market has become tied to the uncontrollable printing of the federal reserve. So in essence they the government is printing money for corporations which should have failed and in return those companies offer stock to the fed which inflates the stock valuations and stock market while the real back bone of the economy is barely limping along. The rich got richer because the Government didn't let them lose when they were supposed to! While the real economy didn't get the attention it desperately needed because those same institutions can now just rely on Big Government to take the bruising because they're "too big to fail" and print more money. Money which we need to pay back through guess what?! MORE TAXES! While we can barely afford to pay what we owe now!
You want to know how you fix this? Here's a quick hint It's NOT RELYING on more of the thing which keeps Screwing us over! It's called leaving people the hell alone! STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO! IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT CAUSE IT'S FOR BECAUSE YOU JUST END UP F***ING IT UP ANYWAY!
Try telling that to your grandparents or people that already have kids... It just doesn't seem to compute...
It’s too expense to live comfortably alone let alone with kids . More people would have kids if they could afford it
I support less babies being born. If I was rich and powerful I would support population control. There are many documentaries that mention the growing population on survival resources.
@@jimbohalsey8374 I wouldn’t worry to much about that we’ll be making cities on Mars and or the moon during this century. Elon’s leading the way
@@stayswervin554 eventually only the elite will be in moon or mars paradise if WW3 doesn't finish everyone first, it is easier to go with plan b and let loose virus after virus mutations
@@jimbohalsey8374 I for one am glad that leftist are choosing not to reproduce. Very glad indeed.
I agree with this. Just the other day I spent over $100 on groceries for just myself. I can't imagine having kids. I make too much money to get food stamps or anything. I make over 50k, but even that doesn't seem like enough money. I have enough for myself, and maybe a S.O. if they didn't work, beyond that I wouldn't be able to afford anything more.
“Robots don’t buy clothes, they don’t buy cars” that’s good! How is that bad?
no, their own buy clothes and cars for their bots, like for their dogs.
I’m a graduate from one of the top universities in the United States and I still don’t have a stable life. Bringing a child into the world right now would be cruel.
It always was cruel. People (regardless of wealth or prosperity) will both experience and (even worse) inflict badness onto others. OTOH, if nobody existed, there'd be nobody who would be upset at not experiencing pleasure. For example, look at Mars or Neptune's moons. Nothing there to be upset at not experiencing pleasure, yet there's also no badness on those bodies.
"The fewer people you're competing with, the easier things are for you."
_Laughs in robots_
Laughs in genetically modified super humans.
Lol they claimed Japan is a leader in innovation. A cash based society where everyone uses fax machines and very little is done online but in person.
@@zeitgeistx5239 their robotic and AI are on the top line. You should check out those hotels completely run by robots.
And that right there is why things were so "easy" (higher wages lower living costs) in the later half of the 20th century. The more people there are the fewer resources there are to go around.
Nobody should be killed or anything like that but the population at any given time worldwide should be reversed somehow and go down.
Can't you see who they're trying to keep from pro-creation. It's not about Robots. Fear that their on borrowed time.
1%ers: No riches for you
Us: Ok, no consumers for you
In my family, past generations got married at a younger age and had time to have more kids. But most of them were not happy in their marriages, and I think it caused their children to wait longer to find the right person or remain unmarried.
Well, we already have run out of houses, so it makes sense that since we've got no place for the humans to live who are already here, making more new humans seems rather reckless.
Also, having babies requires a LOT of time and money. If young people are working 50+ hours a week, when the heck are they supposed to meet, date, marry, and have kids exactly? Parenthood takes time and money and so few people of child bearing age actually have the disposable income to afford to raise one child, much less, two or more!
Not all humans are reckless.
We saw how stressed our parents were and decided we need to wait until we had ourselves a stable life.
Which you either never have, or by the time you have it is too late to have children.
@@ceu160193 that's my worry. I hope to have kids when I'm 30-35 but who knows how that goes
@El Gordo if your a guy that’s fine but woman are ticking biological time bomb they have until the 30s and drop in fertility.
Except we will probably never have a stable life because America's owners are stealing everything their wage slaves have, and the politicians that should be our watchdogs that put a stop to this have been taking steaks from America's owners.
Stability begins and ends with the family. But no one wants to talk about that.
Its a hostile time to have a child, and not because of the quarantine.
Well could be the USA giving near to 0 support compared to other contries like Austria or France
@@Leicht_Sinn or finland
True, many people outright hate children just for existing. They tell them they are a disease who are going to be responsible for many deaths. They consider them to be a product of selfishness and irresponsibility.
@dragonsder so does this counter anything of my argument
USA child support is still bad compared to other western contries
@dragonsder well can you connect the birth rate to the quality of getting a kid and raise it ,because you are missing my point of argument which was about how hostile the US system is for raising a kid
YOU cannot say if your contry has a high birth rate the people are happy to get a lot of babies due to the fact that the birth rate is influenced by other factors like education or cultur
So calling out EU system being flawed by one indicator isn't really a great way of argument
Because i could also talk about France having a higher birthrate compared to USA (2.01 vs 1.73) which is the the frontier of childsupport in the EU
Another major factor that was ignored is how unable people have become to truly commit to each other. People don't want to have children if they aren't certain that their relationship will last.
anyone having baby's in this economey are insane. Why would anyone want to subject a new human being to this world. What a nightmare. I raised two in the 70's and what a nightmare. The cost was way beyond what we could afford. And the struggle goes on.
Maybe economic growth and consumerism shouldn't be the chief goals of humanity.
Yeah sounds like Capitalism is more worried than any of us regarding this!
Why isn't this the top comment?
@@Kiba114 have you heard of Costa Rica? Ok. You can log off the internet now.
@@Kiba114 you knew a whole f*cking lot before huh? What makes you think you can just say dumb sh*t wherever you go, on the same device that has all the answers in the world for you?
@Double Helix No. Economics is a legal fiction that has been summarily falsified. What's your metric for better opportunities? Having a TV? Displacing an entire way of life so they can work a bullsh*t job in a factory, for a bullsh*t wage? It's amazing you neoliberal types still have the nerve to defend your fascism (corporate and state interests with tones of nationalism)>
I love how the world likes to pretend there’s any other reasons to this fertility issue - other than the simple fact that we’re all too poor to have children
@@johnmartin4641 how do you know these young people? I know alot of people that are just in a harsh place or incredible cynicism. I'm 26 and I teach at a title 1 school and all the kids there are either unbelievably depressed or violent. The United States is a dead man walking
@@johnmartin4641 I think the boomers have a great deal of undeserved moral and ethical confidence in themselves.
@@coomdoon a lot of them are my daughters’ friends or husbands of my daughters’ friends. I also worked with a lot of them before I retired a few months ago. Some are my friends’ kids. The guy that got the $130,000 starting salary is my wife’s kid brother.
@@coomdoon there’s nothing wrong with being confident if you have the results to back it up. There are numerous studies that show us boomers were more likely than any other generation to prioritize pay and benefits when choosing our careers and statistics show that we’re the most successful generation in history. That’s not a coincidence. And as I mentioned before, all of the young people I know who have the same priorities as us boomers are off to a good start.
@@johnmartin4641 If people could make more money with their skills and abilities they would. Your worldview is sheltered like a baby
I don’t like my life in the US. Why would I want someone else to live through this
This is mainly due to access to contraceptives, inflation, decline in religiosity, and women working. Many poorer countries, women who do not have access to birth control have a bunch of kids. The more developed these countries are, the less babies born. My female cousins in Kuwait have no children because they are working professional women who are upper middle class and have access to healthcare.
I say support for working women to have children from helps, My grandma and her sister were teachers had 3-4 kids each and my mom and aunts all have jobs and has 2-3 kids each. My college classmates has kids or flirting with idea of having kids and it's not un-usual for offices I've been in to have mothers.
Rich people: let’s scam the middle class so we have all the money
Also rich people: why aren’t they making consumers!!!!!
The rich will then crank up the immigration levels.
rich people dont care they just import more people for the cheap labor and to increase consumption. i think they actually prefer the native population to have low birth rstes because people from the third world generally work for cheaper. all they care about is their profit margins
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Rich: Lets create a system where we have all the money.
Rich: Why aren't people buying anything?
Haha, Gandhi’s un violently protest
I like how the news approaches this story, "people aren't having children because they are suffering and can barely financially support themselves, but the real tragedy here is declining consumerism."
That's what the professional that was holding the kid that wasn't hers told me.
People need to stop living in large cities they can't afford
@@mdsk7623 but that’s where their jobs are I think? I live in a small city and can’t imagine living in a big one, but many of my friends have had to move to large cities for work. NYC, Chicago and L.A. mostly. Meh
That's why they're quick to look at immigration as a solution. Don't bother making the economy better for native people, just import low skill, low wage workers and give them a social security number.
@@Turin-Fett and then blame them for everything! It’s genius, no one ever looks up at those controlling the resources for an explanation, we only look down and blame those competing for them.
As a Childfree Antinatalist this is amazing news to me.
Birthing children only causes pain and suffering forcing them to be wage slaves their entire lives.
I thank you for your service, fellow Childfree Antinatalist.
>I won't have kids so they don't become wage slaves
>Government brings migrants in
Congratulations you played yourself
I just looked up US Population since 1922- we add anywhere from 25 to 30 million people every 10 years- I think we are panicking unreasonably
You are talking about the first order derivative, the devil lies in the details - the second order derivative. Even if your population is increasing, you are in trouble if the rate of increase is plummeting. It is only a matter of time that society will have way too many older people than youngsters.
2020 birth control: Seeing coworkers with kids screaming in the background on Zoom calls.
LOL
😄🤣😂
truth. And the bulk of the responsibility to take care of the children usually falls on the women. Its better than it was 30 years ago, but we've got a long way to go.
True.
Lmao
this whole thing about turning people into consumers and looking at them as dollar signs is exactly why I don't want to have kids.
yup just more corporate slaves to support the elites
Good excuse! As😢🤔 long as you have a good excuse.. you're forgiven.
Or they bend over backwards to provide more value than their competitors to win those consumers.
@@nelsongonzalez4533 They don't need an excuse, and they don't need to be forgiven.
Who is going to pay for social security?
Our current society is unsustainable!
Isn't the birth rate in Europe and the U.S. raised by immigrants? What about the population of those who were there originally?
As a millennial, not many of my peers are focus of having a family right now. We're more concern of gaining stability and pursuing their own goals. The main hindrances are increasing debt loads and lack of opportunities in certain areas.
Unsustainable wealth redistribution that is biting the US as we're unprepared for the future
I think it involves a lot of poor decisions by people. I’ve met so many millennials with useless degrees and 100k in debt. I’ve met others who went straight to a trade instead of college, have no debt and earn 80-100k a year. Just gotta be smart.
@@OmegaFighter1 That's ba pretty bad case and situation to be in. I'm talking to my friends who made similar decisions and trying to provide insight along the way.
@@jtrthehax that's another issue by itself. Pretty big case
@@OmegaFighter1 That begs the question, why should the government and banks be allowed to loan students tens of thousands of dollars for unprofitable degrees? Just about every other kind of loan the bank wants some proof of ability to pay
Separate point, Calling them "useless" is subjective. If I want to pay out of pocket for an art degree because I'm passionate about it and have the money, why not.
it's almost as if giving 90% of the wealth to the top 5% of people in a country might have consequences. who knew?
They knew
@@MikeBrown-go1pc Yep. It's intentional. They understand human psychology. They know that when young people don't have money to go out, to build a life of their own, they tend to stay indoor and sedate themselves with "soma" like video games, or just wasting time on the internet. A more docile population, according to them, is easier to control - less likely to socially mobilize.
@@SevenFootPelican So after that what is their plan? To the gulags, the purge, utopia? Inquiring minds want to know
Yeah you are right by "Giving" that money to them, what were they thinking?
@@SevenFootPelican damn that’s a deep ass conspiracy theory and i like it
Why would anyone want to bring a child into this sewer hole of a world anyway.
The job market sucks, no money no kids
When I was a kid, a family could be comfortably middle class with two kids, two cars, and a house in a nice neighborhood off of one salary. That’s not the case these days. Stagnant wages, exorbitant costs of living (housing, healthcare, education, childcare, etc...) have gutted the middle class’s ability to live the “American Dream.” We are fortunate most young adults are smart enough to realize what a trap bringing children into the world would be, but it’s sad that things have gotten this way.
yes, there are a few with billions.
@@johnmartin4641 Johan we are proud of you , we need to write book about your success story and make seminars about how easy it is, because it is in everyone reach , jobs with 100k salary are common guys and there are plenty of them out for everyone on this planet, you just need to make right choices.
@@-PureRogue there are plenty of $100,000+ jobs. You might not get it as your first job, but should get there within a few years after you get experience to get promoted. I ended my career making over $4,077,000 a year in my last full year of work. As I mentioned before, these young people crossed the 6 figure threshold just a few years into their careers. It’s very doable if you make the right choices.
@@johnmartin4641 It is not about it , someone is going to do it for sure and there is nothing wrong with telling people to strive for progress , but the problem with all of this is that you think that everyone can just strive for 100 k positions and they will be there waiting for them.
It is not how it works , someone gets there, someone does not , you cant fix problem by just saying to look for better opportunities
I am happy that it worked out for you , but it might as well not worked out and you could be in someone else position and they might be in your position.
One event in your life can completely change your life, be grateful for what you have.
@@johnmartin4641 what do you do for living?
Umm my debt to income ratio is insane. So my boomer mother who keeps asking for a grandchild will just have to wait until I pay for the degree she forced me to get.
I hate it when parents/grandparents ask for me to have kids. I ask them what percentage of cost would they like to chip in to raise the little clone? To me, having children is just narcissistic. Dont tell me it isnt, why is it that everyone is so excited to see their physical features on the little clone, lol.
That is a Boomer for you, total greed. One child wasn't enough, so that child must have another children to fulfill her entitlements. By the time that child is a teenager, she'll probably pressure your grandchild to have a great grandchild.
Did she actually force you? No she didn’t. Marry a decent a guy who has his life together
@@iwontreplybacklol7481 there’s something wrong with your thought process
@@btetschner so a grandmother playfully asking for a grandchild is greed? Get your brain fixed
I think a lot of youngsters do realize that at the end of the day, life is pointless. There really is no purpose to one's life, and non existence would have been much sweeter. I am not advocating suicide, but "life is nothing but a disturbance to the peaceful calmness of non existence".
life
The whole world will eventualy run out of people. Only Subsaharan Africa will be growing by the year 2100. As an example: Morocco's fertility rate in 1960 7.1 children per woman, Morocco 2020 2.6 children per woman. Many Latin American countries are now below the replacement rate.
Bro my DNA starts and ends with me
I'm going to use that one day
Amen
Discretion is the better part of valor…
Ultra rich lizard people: "WHY ISN'T OUR CONSUMER CATTLE BREEDING???!! REEEEEE"
I belly laughed....geesus...it hurts.
Need more worker bees!
need more fall guys, patsies, folks to be abused and exploited and treated with contempt
Oh time to move
My grandma had 12 kids between 1949-1964, she was 19 when my mom was born. My mom was 25 when I was born in 1974, and have 2 brothers. I am a male who doesn't have kids. Some of my cousins are just starting to have their first kid at age 30 or so. Others a lot sooner, some not having kids.
Have kid's so our Population can grow we need more people
No. The business world just wants more cheap labor.
The issue in the US is that in order to have a decent life you have to have a career, for that you need an education. In order to take an education you have to indebt yourself. In order to pay off those debts and have a career you have to postpone having children. Add to that the current healthcare system that basically enslaves the employer to the employee and still makes childbirth cost thousands of dollars depending on where you live and you can look forward to postponing children even further into the future. When you can finally afford to birth, feed and educate your children, you can no longer have them. Gee - that took a real academic to figure that one out....
Yep, the cost of Education and Healthcare in the US are just not sustainable. If you compare the US to western European countries, Americans earn about 20% more but spend a couple of 100% more on those things. Add to that the high cost of housing and car dependance and you have to perfect storm. A lot of Americans are having a hard time getting by on salaries that would let them live like a king in most of the world. Yet the black hole of high cost of living in the US sucks them dry.
Yep. I’m 35 and just now feel like I could afford it. But since I’m 35 and bald there is no real way for me to actually attract a girl that would stay and be loyal. System doesn’t work for most. I’ll probably not have kids
You got that right. The cost of having and caring for a child through age 18 is over $200,000.
@@richieb74 I'm in the same boat pretty much.
Exactly, Derguz!
Wages have not kept up with cost of living
Inflation, in my state (CA) wages keep going up, and because of that prices for daily items keep getting more expensive.
Since the 1960s... Literally proves boomers are lazy and do not earn their lives like past and future
@KFC Man wrong? You fail at basic math.. cost of living, aka wages and rent, is worse than 1970s, kid... fact. Numbers prove baby boomer generation had 0 wars and ruined america.
@@dertythegrower Okay Zoomer
*Wages have not kept up with higher living standards. Back in the days, you didn't need to have internet, smartphone, doordash, pet spa, invisalign, air conditioning, a new car every few years.
Kids are for the rich and to be used as weapons in family court. No other use for them except worry.
I have seen my friends struggling to find jobs in this era, marriage is the last thing anyone would think of, rents are costly, you got student loans, where we have money?
The way these people use words like consumers and producers like they aren’t human themselves is disturbing
It's called capitalism, an unsustainable, anti-human system based on theft of labor and resources.
@@meehanparast whats your answer Communism? 🤣🤣
Were pretty much slaves
@@shawnkay5462well we're not happy with capitalism!
They didn’t even try to sound human.
"Is The U.S. Running Out Of People?"
Alternate title : "Please make children our ponzi scheme is running out of people"
yeah the system is a ponzi scheme
The people: hahaha lower my bills so we can
The government: no
The people: ok then we won't
Us running out of people!? Wahahaha!!!!! I have big blue balls... let me solve your problem!!... say all men.
For claiming to be a capitalist nation, America sure doesn't understand its basic principals.
"A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation." -Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
No child asks to be born. So maybe we shouldn’t force them to be. Just maybe.
ngl, watching declining birth rate concerns is SO weird when you grew up listening to people freaking out about how it wouldn't be long before the earth was overpopulated.
Well, I wanted kids but as a first-generation immigrant, I had a lot of pressure to get a good career & no guidance plus inadequate healthcare to take care of my wellbeing as I worked on my goals so that I could afford to give a good life to my kids & make a difference in the world.
I had to take on a ridiculous amount of loans & pushed through undiagnosed medical condition because of medical gaslighting & our inaccessible healthcare system for people like me.
With my healthcare needs unmet, just as I was about to finally reach my goals, my underlying health issues caught up to me & I had to delay my PsyD graduation for 5 years while I fought to get my health needs met so that I could finish school & work again. Once I was finally making progress - I had finally finished my PsyD, gotten my diagnosis, & started treatment - the pandemic started & set me back yet again on my career & health goals. Now at 38yo, I had to move back in with my family & start over with my healthcare so that I can stabilize enough to work again.
At this age, I am looking at high-risk pregnancy due to my age AND my medical condition that went unaddressed my whole life but by the time I get my health & career back on track I worry I will age out of my birth-giving years. I have worked so hard my whole life & work in a field that NEEDS people like me (Forensic Psychology) but our current systems have made it nearly impossible for me to get anywhere. Not to mention, as someone with a chronic illness I now also face a lot of stigma & discrimination in the workforce. I am so mentally & physically exhausted that I don’t even have the capacity to take care of a pet let alone have a child.
If our economy relies on infinite growth there's a problem
Its always relied on overblown "crisis"
is there really? I think that is only a problem if you sustain the growth with expansion, if you adapt and find smart clever ways to sustain growth then there is no problem with infinite growth is it?
It’s just for old people. Whose gonna take care and pay for them? Young people
@@ferror18 infinite growth is an illusion. Our planet is finite
@@ferror18 capitalism sucks ass at that! We already have solutions in green energy and fossil fuel shareholders are using every resource at their disposal to sow doubt about climate change and build political barricades against the transition we urgently need.
I can’t even get a girlfriend
Yeah me too
thats sad.. are you poor?
Have you tried getting a job, women don't want bums that can't provide.
@@juanshaftpatel7488 I'm poor and ugly. I'm breaking the first two rules of dating
@@Johansen1000 Some actually do
Kids cost money a lot of money. And wages have stagnated. I'm not having them in that situation
The country has been going downhill for a long time now. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world the way it's going.
If the working class is becoming homeless, this speaks volumes
useless class
@@juanshaftpatel7488 You go right ahead see how far you get without the slaves. At least for now, as real AI is decades off still. You get what you pay for in this silly dystopia society. If you pay the workers slave wages, and subject them to slave labor or worse. Of course many aren't going to be working to hard by choice. Hard work gets you nowhere in this world today. Well unless you fancy being exploited for even less crumbs that is.
@@user-gz4ve8mw9l AI growth is accelerating, and there is enough technology and the ai to use it to survive without the working class
The working class isnt becoming homeless. Do you live in California or New York or something?
People are just making stupid choices
I can hardly afford living by myself and with horrible job opportunities, lack of affordable healthcare and unreliable potential spouses. I am not gonna sit there and bring another person in to this world to suffer.
Thank you!!!!
sad you think that the kid automatically will suffer.
I think this all stems from costs skyrocketing over the years and wages going nowhere. I guarantee if families were able to live on a single salary that women would be more inclined to have more than one child and not work. I had a talk with my wife about that recently and she said she would rather stay at home with the kids if we could afford to survive on one salary, which came as a surprise, because she's been very focused on her career. We both work, have good jobs, and have two kids, but we aren't able to have a third due to financial reasons.
It's basic math and I've run the numbers, taxes, mortgage, health care, food, multiple insurances, stocks, 401k, IRA, etc. There's no room to support a person
My family is a good example of declining family size. My grandmother had 9 children, my parents had 6 kids, and I only had one.
Mine was similar. My maternal grandparents had 5 kids. They only got 6 grandchildren.
Have more.
@@Wilhelmofdeseret I have one child "only" and do not plan to have another one... pretty happy to have my child around
Same... my mom was number 9 of 12 kids. My dad was number 2 of 6. My husband and I are 38 and 37 years old with no kids. His brother no kids, my sister no kids.
same story from both sets of my granparents. My parents then had 3. I had two and tied my tubes.
Having children for me is like having a Ferrari, only millionaires can have it!
hmm have you ever driven a ferrari
It’s Like Owning A Car
@@byronchavarria4954 ok thanks
What about a wife/husband?
@@byronchavarria4954 a car could be cheaper
And now you know why Roe vrs Wade was overturned.
Remember in “Idiocracy” where the smart people weren’t having kids because they were (justifiably) pessimistic about the future, but the idiot population skyrocketed because (irresponsibly and drunkenly) they weren’t thinking about the consequences of their actions or worrying about the future for their kids? That pretty much sums up the state of things, at least in the US.
I'm South Korean and population of my country declined on 2020 and this trend is expected to continue. Expensive housing costs and tough job market are primary reason.
And in the West, instead of putting money for incentives to start families, we are putting more money into abortions instead. 😑
Yeah in England, we're lucky we got a lot of immigration if it wasn't for constant immigration from the rest of Europe we would have an almost 20% smaller population. Scotland has already declined even with immigration.
NO you drank the KOOLAID. you are in the same position as they are 1+1=2
@@arnowisp6244 the problem isn't abortions, unwanted children are hardly going to create stable families good for the nation either lmao, instead of taking choice we should put our money into making child-rearing easier for families 1 or 2 parents or guardians, whatever. In Britain the NHS literally sends you a nurse to help mothers learn the basics of raising the child
@Saami Zakir i disagree, if people from poorer countries WANT to come to America, as long as they're willing to work, why stop them? The onus should be on nations to build an environment for people to want to live in, not for people to stick around and hopefully wait for it to become better for them, it's fine if they choose to do the latter but why deny them the choice of the former?
WE CAN’T AFFORD THEM!
@Color Warped do you?
But a new Iphone every two years and a new 50 to 100k Tesla car every 5 years is ok for millennials and zoomers
@@THEREALZENFORCE Oh, what was I thinking? With the $700 I save every three years* I could totally afford the $230,000** price tag on raising a kid to college age! Thanks for showing me the error of my ways.***
*Phone batteries have a limited life and this is about how long I've managed to make one last
**Rough estimate of the current cost of creating one adult according to fake news sources like the U.S. Department of Agriculture
***I don't know a single person my age driving a Tesla; we're buying Fords or driving our used cars into the ground like my friend whose car is a potential safety hazard right now but good luck affording a new one on the $12.50 an hour they're paying him for his biology degree
The average worker is 3.5 times more productive at work than they were in 1970 but only makes 17% more. Back then only 20% of mothers worked but it’s 80% today. Americans have to pay 100% out of pocket for medical expenses for having a kid and pay for childcare cuz we have no universal child care and the tax credit for having kids is pathetic. Why on earth should millennial‘a have kids? Other developed countries give people way more insensitive through better child credits, healthcare, childcare, better schools etc
To be honest - I am not getting married or having children simply because of the alimony, child support and I'm just outright scared of getting married and having a divorce where I lose everything . Its happened to so many people I know and it honestly sucks hard
And also even if i dont get divorced like why get married when i can live off lavishly from a really low wage because I dont have to pay for a family house and children.
Them: “How do we keep this financial ponzi scheme going for generations?!”
Exactly it is called a pyramid scheme for a reason, they need more new people at the bottom to make it work. The whole system is corrupt.
Socialism dies in a hundred years. Time is ticking for social security. Take resources from other sources. Wait. Those pyramid schemes are also collapsing.
Life is a ponzi scheme.
Its sickening how this is framed around "economic productivity". Why isnt the issue our collective well-being???
Thell'em Connor!
Economic productivity is needed for our well-being, it may just seem like numbers but it matters for the prosperity of humans.
@I. S i dont want to be measured by productivity and i dont wsnt to do that to anyone else either. If thats how capitalism works then then capitalism is flawed
@@awesomelyshorticles In America, "economic productivity" and "collective well-being" are identical and worshipping capitalism as a god is a prerequisite for obtaining any sort of power to do anything about it.
@hygroscopyc aka mental health, physical health, social connection, longevity, financial stability + prosperity, general sense life is going in right direction for me and for my neighbors..... if what it takes for my well being (and my neighbors) to be measured in those terms and for a government to act in favor of raising those measurements is to move to a socialist country that according to you is so bad, then something is terribly, awfully wrong with our society. If the only society that cares about all our well being is a socialist country, then i want to be there, i dont care what its called.
There is no way to afford children anymore. I can barely afford the 800$ a month rent I pay for my 2 bed apartment in Florida.
Gosh I believe this is true. My mom had 7 kids, but she only has 2 grandkids! 😅