Re:Universal basic income: A nonprofit is about to test it i...
by lmm on Friday April 15, 2016 @08:29AM
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Children are society's future. I think society needs to incentivize people to have children - otherwise our population will gradually decline to zero (developed countries already have birth rates well below replacement, only immigration is keeping them out of decline).
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Re:Universal basic income: A nonprofit is about to test it i...
by morgante on Friday April 15, 2016 @08:34AM
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> Children are society's future.
Sure, but only in the sense that they're the ones who will be living it. Fewer children doesn't mean society won't have a future. It just means they'll each have more resources.
The world is not at risk of underpopulation. If that were actually a serious concern, we could take measures to mitigate it but all evidence points to there being plenty of people in the world already. Some wealthy countries might have declining populations, but there are plenty of countries with overpopulation to offset that.