This is so poorly thought out. She doesn’t at all respond to the impact to the economy of changes in population structure. If she was serious she might suggest options like immigration
What I would like to hear are suggestions about how to organise our economies so that they can withstand changes in the population structure. It has to happen eventually. The earth will not continue to support human civilisation if humanity continues to spend the earth's ecological capital, and humanity can't expand indefinitely without doing so.
Immigration has already been the solution in the western world to population decline since the start of the dip in birth rate. That's why China and Japan have such a population crunch.
That was totally lacking in any insight or evidence of deeper thought. Classic NYT. I am genuinely worried that elderly people will suffer abuse or total neglect in the future. For an adult discussion of this topic, I recommend the work of Stephen J. Shaw.
IMHO this is a bad take. We should not be looking to reduce QOL for everyone by changing the definition of retirement to mean only semi-retirement. I do agree that we shouldn't be pressuring people to have kids that they don't want, but that doesn'tmean that we should accept declining population. You hit the nail on the head: people are too financially insecure to have children. We should look to solve this by addressing that problem
_I do agree that we shouldn't be pressuring people to have kids that they don't want, but that doesn'tmean that we should accept declining population_ Then you want to force people into having children, plain and simple.
@TijaunaK No, I don't believe in forcing people to do anything. I'd rather we address this problem by improving everyone's economic conditions so that more people feel secure enough to have children. Some people don't want kids, and that's cool. Some people do want kids but don't because of money.
The solution is to create part-time jobs that offer full-time wages and benefits, while also cutting Social Security? Who is going to pay for the new benefits of these jobs? I would think they'd be more expensive over a person's entire working life than SS is now.
What do you make of the fact that Israel is the only developed/advanced/affluent country in the world with a total fertility rate above replacement? That's Js, not Arabs and even secular Js are slightly above replacement.
This was like a high schooler wrote it
Oh wow! Exactly. Is this really the best NYT can find?
This is so poorly thought out. She doesn’t at all respond to the impact to the economy of changes in population structure. If she was serious she might suggest options like immigration
Exactly. WTF
What I would like to hear are suggestions about how to organise our economies so that they can withstand changes in the population structure. It has to happen eventually. The earth will not continue to support human civilisation if humanity continues to spend the earth's ecological capital, and humanity can't expand indefinitely without doing so.
Immigration has already been the solution in the western world to population decline since the start of the dip in birth rate. That's why China and Japan have such a population crunch.
I think this is a fledgling idea that with more thinking can work.
The video is 7 minutes, I think people are being too harsh.
That was totally lacking in any insight or evidence of deeper thought. Classic NYT. I am genuinely worried that elderly people will suffer abuse or total neglect in the future. For an adult discussion of this topic, I recommend the work of Stephen J. Shaw.
So what is the solution? Just accept it. Okay. Not sure if the word "solution" is the right one here.
Yikes, this is garbage
Damn, this was demonic
IMHO this is a bad take. We should not be looking to reduce QOL for everyone by changing the definition of retirement to mean only semi-retirement. I do agree that we shouldn't be pressuring people to have kids that they don't want, but that doesn'tmean that we should accept declining population. You hit the nail on the head: people are too financially insecure to have children. We should look to solve this by addressing that problem
_I do agree that we shouldn't be pressuring people to have kids that they don't want, but that doesn'tmean that we should accept declining population_
Then you want to force people into having children, plain and simple.
@TijaunaK No, I don't believe in forcing people to do anything. I'd rather we address this problem by improving everyone's economic conditions so that more people feel secure enough to have children.
Some people don't want kids, and that's cool. Some people do want kids but don't because of money.
The solution is to create part-time jobs that offer full-time wages and benefits, while also cutting Social Security? Who is going to pay for the new benefits of these jobs? I would think they'd be more expensive over a person's entire working life than SS is now.
Hopefully, Grose won't have children.
What do you make of the fact that Israel is the only developed/advanced/affluent country in the world with a total fertility rate above replacement? That's Js, not Arabs and even secular Js are slightly above replacement.
Why do we need more people when we are going to have autostion plus there is nowhere to live
This it. This the one!