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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by martindbp on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:16AM (#24419006)
The problem is that we're already decreasing our population too fast in many developed countries. We can't go down as rapidly as we went up, or society will collapse.
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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by jelliclesfarm on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:49AM (#24419234)
Immigration should solve it. Increasing replacement rate of developed countries doesn’t mean that exponential population in developing countries will decline.

Which begs the questions: is the race to fulfill replacement rate in developed countries the real reason to incentivise child births?

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by AstralStorm on Thursday September 10, 2020 @03:25AM (#24429800)
It isn't, as the rates are near replacement, which should not be a problem. (And increased health span allows some older people to remain in workforce.)

However, retirement and social systems were designed during a boom and were inadequately funded.

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