Global Population Problem

Niall Ferguson, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow says that immigration in western countries is only a short-term solution to a global slump in fertility rates.
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[Recuper]

Humans aren't stupid. We can do basic math.

[yogrjyo]

Corps are very worry, no more slaves for tomorrow..

[shantanushekharsjunerft]

I spend $22, 000 in childcare to get $600 tax credits. Elon Musk probably gets to write off his private jet 😂. And you want to know why folks aren’t having children?

[jbak]

At 3:32 "people decide to spend their resources not on having more children, but on having more vacations or requiring yachts and McMansions."


WHAT?!

Only the uppermost income bracket are doing that! His answer comes off as really uneducated.

[ElKaramel]

I am a 30 years old male, and with no property inherited working 40+ hours a week within hospitality and agriculture, as a lower middle class with a university diploma, i can't simply get to the numbers that would allow me to start up a family, hell even buy some decent clothes and take a gal for a dinner. Don't get me wrong this is not a whining, I do believe there is a way for everybody to accumulate enough capital and wealth at some point to start own business and buy own property, i just think it might be too late in the sense of one life span to start a family.

[kchance]

Ppl are smarter now than before. They realize life isn’t all that great, no point in passing on the struggles to next generation.

[Rayjack-mo]

I can remember in the 1970's and 1980's they were concerned with overpopulation , Just like they were predicting the coming Ice Age.

[rtgrftgrtrftgrhbet]

Make transportation cheap. Make utilities cheap, make housing cheap. Make food cheap and people will have more kids.

[geraldwaitforit]

The wolfs are worried the sheeps are not multiplying 😂

[Ravenelvenlady]

A dear friend of an acquaintance of mine died this morning giving birth to twins, here in the USA where maternal deaths, especially among African American women, has been really high. As of this writing I do not knwo if the twins will survive. If the babies survive, her partner will be left with the task and expense of funeral, hospital bills, and child rearing. This may be another reason why many young women are choosing not to have children at all these days. 😨😰😢

[lingth]

Because having babies is expensive? Housing.. milk powder.. child education.. nursery costs

[PedestrianPony]

Either the cost of living needs to come substantially down or the government needs to start cutting $20, 000 annual checks to people per kid they have. Nobody is interested in setting themselves back economically to provide fresh workers.

[localguy]

People are getting smarter. They are making informed and wise decisions. No one in their right mind should have children unless you are financially ready to cater for a child.

[MCC]

World population is 8 billion now.
World population at 6 billion - we were fine.
World population at 4 billion - we were fine.
World population at 2 billion - we were fine.

[anywhereroam]

It’s not like humans or a country would go extinct if their population halved. At some point of population decline, the economics of having children will improve because their will be more resources spread across less people.

Why must populations seek constant population growth? This talks about it being a problem but never explains why it’s a problem.

[jonl]

Yeah i was gonna have a kid but then i bought a yacht.

[flobba]

how many people is enough? 10 billion 1000 billion? guess the number cant go up forever

[netsiteing]

why is population decline a problem when technology including AI can automate much of of the work/activity and decline works well when it comes to limited resources … it may only impact companies who were betting on more people to get more profits

[ReturnOfTheJ.D.]

"So what happened? Why is it that we have the fertility rates going down in so many countries around the world?"
"Well that's not the easiest question I've been asked today"

How about women in the workplace, rising cost of living relative to wage growth (stagnant in real terms since the late 70s), high cost of housing or rent, high cost of childcare, high rates of divorce, there being many more ways to entertain yourself (or keep yourself mentally occupied) today than in the 90s, less societal pressure to marry and have children, high cost of raising children to age 18, mass immigration lowering wages and raising demand for housing, higher access to credit cards which puts people in high-interest debt quickly, higher and more insecure unemployment since the late 1970s or early 80s, globalism - global marketplace for talent. It's one of the easiest questions to ask if you look at how life's changed over the last 40 - 50 years, but those who benefitted well regardless of these changes obviously don't want to think about them. There's also those who never had to live through them due to when they were born, who live in denial about them even as they're now in their fifth decade of existence.

[Guitarty]

Price people out of owning or renting a property with mass immigration and its bound to hit the economy as it also impacts wages and peoples spending.