Re:No Babies? -- Causes for the aging population of Europe
by kjhgbhjkl on Sunday October 03, 2010 @12:37PM
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Children are a Ponzi scheme - you have lots of children to support you in old age (either directly in 3rd world or via social security in the 1st)
This leads to over population - but screw them, you will be dead.
It's rather like some countries attitude to consuming natural resources, if we don't burn the oil first somebody else will
Re:No Babies? -- Causes for the aging population of Europe
by jacquesm on Saturday October 02, 2010 @09:48PM
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That's a problem that will solve itself in a maximum of about 70 years.
Re:No Babies? -- Causes for the aging population of Europe
by bpodgursky on Sunday October 03, 2010 @12:53AM
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No, it won't. If you maintain the same sub-replacement fertility rate, you'll end up with a stable inverted population pyramid, albeit a constantly shrinking one. Every generation will have too few workers to support too many retirees.
These are not good things, especially because they have recursive aspects, as discussed.