Why The Elites Can't Solve The Demographic Crisis

In this video, I analyse the book Leviathan and Its Enemies by Samuel T. Francis in relation to the demographic crisis.

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00:00 - Introduction
03:28 - The Managerial Elite
19:03 - Managerial Regime And The Demographic Crisis

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Books used in the video:
Samuel T. Francis - Leviathan and Its Enemies

[enilenis]

Expecting elites to fix demographics is like asking a tapeworm to solve hunger.

[alexdetrojan]

They're not trying to solve the demographic crisis...

[blafonovision]

I take care of old people for a living. Even the people with children have no one to care for them. It’s all depressing.

[Pascal-]

The dopamine rush of feeling superior because I'm studying the collapse of the western status quo (and I'm doing absolutely nothing about it)

[mocha_bear]

I live in Germany as a foreigner. A few months ago I went to a concert with a native friend. The singer sang an unpublished song of him. It was in German and my friend explained it to me. The song was about the singer's life situation. It tells that he was unmarried and childless despite he is in his mid-30s but he should not worry because living the moment is more important. Something like that... and that song, my friends, that song summarises the mindset that Western Europeans, men and women, are currently at.

[heluphicclovanass]

The managerial class doesn't want you to say "F*ck it, we balling"

[CharlesIsMyName]

In the UK we don't allow child benefits for more than two children, but we give money to households with up to four wives. The UK is done for.

[CD-pmkc]

Seems the managerial class and mass immigration go hand in hand. Cheaper workers (to manage) and more consumers (to buy).

[Truhno]

South Korean population pyramid is such a depressing image

[callspreadzero]

I will say, as an American male, I was shocked the first time I went to Europe and realized many didn’t have relationships with the opposite sex; how many single people there was. Little did I know, I would witness the same within two decades in the U.S. as well.

[koboa]

"they can't” no, rather "they don't want to" and to take it a step further, "they design it"

[oskarandersson]

As a swede it feels like it's over. No one at my age that i know value familiy and self sacrifice. Mind you i am not a saint. I certainly have fallen for this hedonist stuff myself. But as Kaiser says, there is no long term satisfaction in it. I just don't know how to go about life during all this chaos.

[martainroth]

They can't solve it because they don't want to. If you're a manager your there because you do a good job at getting people to work harder for less money so that more money can be moved to the top. There is a guy in Seattle who gave up his million $ salary and only took $100K and used the rest of the money to increase the pay to everyone who worked for him; over 10 years his employes had 23 kids that they all said they wouldn't have had if they didn't have the pay increase so that they could afford a decent place to live and pay off their debts and be happy about having a family. I don't know of any other managers who would give up 90% of their income so that other people could be happy having families.

[orthodox-mphv]

The whole episode describes how the modern world is currently suffering from the same syndrome that every dynasty of China suffered from—excessive bureaucracy, so pervasive that it permeates every facet of life.

[thesenate]

We don't owe shareholders a cheap workforce just because they want us to. After the Bubonic Plague, European peasants had a lot more bargaining power and rights improved, why shouldnt this happen again?

[HumanBeing-vjnx]

Birds don't breed without nest.
Humans don't breed without house...

Lower the economic costs for housing...

[nERVEcenter]

It should be noted that the concept of a managerial elite was proposed earlier by James Burnham in his book titled The Managerial Revolution, which describes the transition from WWII to the Cold War, and the US-led shift to managerialism. Francis refines those ideas further with the benefit of extra hindsight. Oswald Spengler from an even earlier time predicted managerialism in The Decline of the West.

[Cardulionax]

Solve? Why would they want to solve the crisis they're the ones that cause and uphold it.

[benf]

Greed makes it too expensive to have children...then the same greedy people cry that they don't have enough desperate people to exploit and buy their products.

[ninny]

3:22, it's important to remember that some of these green painted countries did lose population but they've supplemented their population decline with immigration. If you looked at their native population growth, most would be negative