The demographic reality will hit hard, then all those western countries will compete to attract immigrants, to wipe their old asses and contribute to pension funds. Those who accept immigrants today will rule the world tomorrow.
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It is already hitting hard and not just Western countries. The fertility rate is below replacement on every continent besides Africa already. Countries like China and Thailand have shrinking populations today. The global fertility rate was at 2.3 in 2023 according to the UN.
Something to keep in mind while talking about birth rate in France, is that we have a retirement system that is centered around growth. We do not have individual retirement plans, we pay each month for the currently retired people, and the workers will pay for ours when we retire. This creates a problem when the population of retired ppl is in augmentation and the active population ( working and paying taxes) is declining.
For a long time there was way more active pop than retired so we have a safety net, but it will slowly erode. And currently the political "solution" being pushed is not growing the active population (immigration for instance), but shifting the system towards a capitalisation (ie. Simililar to 401k)
The logical thing to do is to raise the retirement age, especially eith increasing life expectancy. But even suggesting something like this has half of France up in arms...
Maybe the logical thing to do wouldn't be to bake fucking pyramid schemes into your society. I'm looking at you social security
"Most of France's neighbors are farting even worse..."
It's the sauerkraut.
They've been pulling the long con, exporting ze stinky cheezes
Outjerked
I'm sure their rulers are having no trouble reproducing.
The middle class is being bred out of the gene pool.
the ruling class is often inbred.
I'm really confused about what you're trying to say, because it kind of sounds like replacement theory
No that's not what he's saying. He's saying the wealthy are trying to kill the rest of us off, or at least thin the herd. Though be it on purpose or just through incompetence is the question. It's not a crazy Theory really.
Why wasn't the lower class included in the statement? If it's because they're breeding like rabbits then "it kind of sounds like replacement theory". I don't know why that group was omitted but it leaves that interpretation open
Because the poor tend to be less educated in ways to prevent unwanted pregnancies. So we see rich people having as many kids as they want, and poor people having a lot of kids, often accidentally, and only the middle class moderating themselves.
I dont know whats the situation in france but in finland highly educated (middle class) people have more children than working class people.
I failed to find much data for France but it looks like for the US there is a slight downward trend with wage so no rich having lots of babies and no middle class not having babies:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-family-income-in-the-us/
In the US there are people who you would think we're literally unfuckable, looks, hygiene and filthy poor and yet they find someone and have 7 kids.
I've seen women and men alike that almost make you want to throw up by looking at them but somehow have a fuckn kid crawling on them.
Oh for sure feels like that in Finland too but apparently statistically speaking for every one of those families there’s a bunch of people who never reproduce whereas middle class educated people have 2-3 children pretty consistently.
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Okay, I read it and re read it and, unless I'm mistaken, I think he meant "rich people have money for kids, whilst the middle class doesn't". Which I don't necessarily agree with (ofc rich people have money and we have less and less, I agree and it sucks, but is it behind the birth rates, really?), that's much better than just another racist take. 😅
The article up to the paywall is just "blame women"
Y u no want to fuck with stupid fucks?
The vibe I got was blame men for not being appealing enough
And in the end, it all boils down to:
"Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome."
If the system makes raising children expensive, pushes for individualism, career, productivity and consumption while making high paying jobs located in child unfriendly cities, you get this as an outcome. And of course systemic changes are immediately wiped off the table because a small number at the top profit from the system as it is.
also COL areas
Exactly this
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