Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail
by njwi332 on Saturday July 01, 2017 @09:48PM
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In some ways this might show the steady state of a developed economy. Other developed nations are growing in large part through immigration - if the whole world was developed and there was nowhere for immigrants to come from, it's not implausible that we would see something like this start to happen everywhere.
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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail
by pm90 on Sunday July 02, 2017 @04:25PM
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I hadn't thought about this much, but this is an excellent point. I imagine the only thing that would change this in the future is if we made child bearing and rearing a lot less burdensome than what it is right now.... but that seems like a pipe dream, even as I write it down. I imagine economics are only one part of the difficulty with having children; the emotional consequences are probably much more significant.