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Re:Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate by xienze on Saturday May 30, 2015 @09:42PM (#9632659)
> Lover birth rate is a good thing in the long term

It most definitely is NOT a good thing to have a birth rate below replacement in a developed country, especially one with European-style social programs. Eventually you run out of workers to support the people who aren't doing so.

Re:Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate by k__ on Saturday May 30, 2015 @09:46PM (#9632670)
If you assume a developed country, you have an attractive place to live for many people from other badly developed countries. So you can simply import them.
Re:Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate by xienze on Saturday May 30, 2015 @09:51PM (#9632687)
That brings with it its own problems, as many European countries are discovering.
Re:Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate by thanksgiving on Sunday May 31, 2015 @08:06AM (#9633897)
Bring in wealthy people like the US experimented with by bringing in the Chinese.
Re:Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate by return0 on Sunday May 31, 2015 @04:01AM (#9633441)
typically their qualifications are low, though
Re:Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate by icebraining on Sunday May 31, 2015 @11:46AM (#9634481)
They're certainly higher than German-born newborns. If you can afford to educate a child from birth, you can certainly afford to train adults.
Re:Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate by return0 on Sunday May 31, 2015 @05:59PM (#9635739)
not true
Re:Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate by resonation on Saturday May 30, 2015 @09:48PM (#9632674)
I think he means there's a difference between births arising from couples in love, as opposed to births arising either by accident or from couples bound by other arrangments forced out of motives of survival, hence the qualifier being a "lover's birth rate."

As for quantifying which births are "lover's" births, and which are not, well... good luck with that.

Re:Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate by xienze on Saturday May 30, 2015 @09:52PM (#9632689)
I'm thinking typo. "Lover" birth rate doesn't really make sense in the context of the discussion.
Re:Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate by resonation on Saturday May 30, 2015 @10:26PM (#9632779)
Ha ha! Right you are, oh well...
Re:Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate by zxyzzxxx on Saturday May 30, 2015 @10:05PM (#9632721)
I don't know what are you quoting me, and then talking about something I never wrote. ( rhetorical q. )
Re:Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate by xienze on Saturday May 30, 2015 @10:20PM (#9632762)
Well, to be honest I thought you meant "lower" birth rate. I've never heard of the concept of "lover birth" rate before.
Re:Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate by zxyzzxxx on Saturday May 30, 2015 @10:24PM (#9632774)
Lower is what I meant, it was a typo. And that is not what I'm referring to in my parent comment, which is still valid.