A World Without Babies: Private choices and potent public consequences

Re:A World Without Babies: Private choices and potent public... by ALittleLight on Sunday October 29, 2023 @11:21PM (#38065335)

That seems pretty implausible. Some people have low fertility and others have high. Over time low fertility sub-populations will become less common and high fertility groups will become more common. That's just evolution. It's normal for a population to vary up and down a bit.

The future will look like Africa and South America becoming more populous and sending people to North and South America to work taking care of the elderly low fertility folks who have no children to take care of them. I don't know the details about Asia, but probably a similar pattern.

That type of thing plus MAID to get rid of the elderly that we can't care for - I highly doubt population will decrease. That's just not what evolution does.

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Re:A World Without Babies: Private choices and potent public... by 7thaccount on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:14AM (#38065936)

Demographics shows populations decreasing in mass anytime people urbanize as children become expensive instead of a necessity like on the farm. This is happening all over Europe, China, Japan, South Korea...etc. People are still having sex, but using protection and other means to not have babies.

Africa will eventually urbanize as well and as infant mortality goes down will be in the same boat as everywhere else. Religion will thwart this in some places (perhaps temporarily or maybe permanently).

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