> the young were taught not to care about anyone but themselves
as were the old.
Social Security won't have funding issues for almost a decade but there is no political will now, especially among the elderly, to find a solution to this problem
as were the old.
Social Security won't have funding issues for almost a decade but there is no political will now, especially among the elderly, to find a solution to this problem
People are living longer, immigration can't solve the problem, people are relatively healthy and wealthy, etc. but there is not enough babies entering at the bottom of the pyramid to grow into tax payers to continue funding the social systems.
Dystopian me sees a world where western governments will have to institute mandatory, two child per woman births, moratoriums on birth control, huge incentives for people with children under 18, and aggressive pushes for couples to raise adopted children and/or make new ones.
Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to just allow more immigration?
I mean, there are plenty of young, able-bodied, english-speaking people who'd like to move to rich countries.
Look at Japan for example. Immigration has been touted by Western think tanks and pundits as a solution to their demographic problems, but instead they've chosen to go all in on automation and robots to attempt to solve it.
I expect Korea to follow the same path. Probably China too. A lot of East Asian countries that are at the bleeding edge of the demographic bomb place extremely high value on population and cultural homogeneity. The West would probably label that as racism.
And forcing every woman to have two children isn't?
I would imagine such aggressive measures (i.e. forcing of anything) would occur first in a certain other countries before it happens in the West - if it ever does. I would also not be surprised if the West would implicitly choose to implode first before sacrificing an iota of "freedom and individuality".
Outside the West, I also would not be surprised if some countries/cultures would implicitly choose to implode before sacrificing their homogeneity.
(If more aggressive payments by other countries are any indication, this will have approximately zero effect on people's decisions.)
Both in the EU and US, various immigrants (both legal and illegal), have been coming into the continents since the 1960s.
But even with all the immigration, currently there are still near one child fertility rates.
The native inhabitants, both the native born and born from immigrant families, still need to make up the short fall of having their own children.
Is it matter while enough immigrants coming?
I would also not be surprised if the West would implicitly chooses to implode first before sacrificing an iota of "freedom and individuality". As the saying goes, "give me liberty or give me death", or that famous Benjamin Franklin quote about trading freedom for security.