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Re:What Refugees Bring When They Run for Their Lives by socket0 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @07:31AM (#10225847)
We're all someone's cattle in some greater scheme. The community funds education and healthcare, not because we're nice people, but because there's a net benefit to having a healthy and educated workforce. It's cynical and sad, but also realistic.

> Have some more goddamn kids.

Volunteers for the bordercases EU breeding programme eagerly awaited! :)

Re:What Refugees Bring When They Run for Their Lives by bordercases on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @02:31PM (#10228738)
> kids

A demographic inverse pyramid occurs when parents decide to breed below replacement rate. I intend to have two or more children, preferably around four children, as a way of ensuring that my values exist more strongly over the coming decades. It's a form of game theoretic cooperation with my culture in what resembles a Commons problem.

Re:What Refugees Bring When They Run for Their Lives by guard-of-terra on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @06:15PM (#10230302)
I would say we had a population bubble. "Inverse pyramid" is a fallout from bubble.

It happened that many people were born and raised, setting all-time population records, and trying to keep this number increase forever and forever is unviable. One may argue that there's still a lot of land for people to live in, but truth is people skip villages and small towns for capitals because they're not needed where they used to live. There's land, but there's no demand.