A reminder that the population crisis isn’t limited to “the same map every time” countries. Everyone’s going to have to deal with the double jeopardy of falling birth rates and aging populations. Africa not withstanding as the region with the youngest population on average
The only thing truly at risk is the infinite economic growth of capitalism. We shouldn't have trouble meeting the needs of the elderly population with our current level of technology.
Of course, the needs of capital can have a way of affecting ordinary life, but that's not really a new phenomenon.
Technology isn't the issue. Technicians are the issue. All the machines in the world are of no use when you have nobody to operate and maintain them.
A market economy that undervalues physical and mechanical labor at the expense of marketing, legal, and finance sectors in the midst of a decline in young laborers will produce a society that is only capable of bickering over who owns the ashes.
Of course but that’s like saying climate change isn’t an issue because we can adapt to the i coming crises with socialism. Sure but that’s not where we’re at. Having an population overhang of retirees puts extra productive burden on the younger workforce. The fact that China’s pursuing a state project of getting people hitched here tells us that they’re taking this issue seriously and trying to address it, at least in part, with social engineering
A reminder that the population crisis isn’t limited to “the same map every time” countries. Everyone’s going to have to deal with the double jeopardy of falling birth rates and aging populations. Africa not withstanding as the region with the youngest population on average
The only thing truly at risk is the infinite economic growth of capitalism. We shouldn't have trouble meeting the needs of the elderly population with our current level of technology.
Of course, the needs of capital can have a way of affecting ordinary life, but that's not really a new phenomenon.
Technology isn't the issue. Technicians are the issue. All the machines in the world are of no use when you have nobody to operate and maintain them.
A market economy that undervalues physical and mechanical labor at the expense of marketing, legal, and finance sectors in the midst of a decline in young laborers will produce a society that is only capable of bickering over who owns the ashes.
Of course but that’s like saying climate change isn’t an issue because we can adapt to the i coming crises with socialism. Sure but that’s not where we’re at. Having an population overhang of retirees puts extra productive burden on the younger workforce. The fact that China’s pursuing a state project of getting people hitched here tells us that they’re taking this issue seriously and trying to address it, at least in part, with social engineering