The biggest problem of the 21st century may well be that there won’t be enough younger workers to support the population of the aged. From Tom Woods at lewrockwell.com:
My friend Matt Ridley today pointed out an interesting demographic fact, and as it happens a fact that Charlie Kirk commented on just weeks before his death: the decline in birth rates seems to be concentrated primarily among progressives, while self-described conservatives have seen a much less significant decline.
We can speculate on why that should be, and obvious explanations appear to present themselves, but this is a fact.
Even so, conservatives’ birth rates still amount to a decline, and we’re going to need something more than just falling more slowly if we’re going to escape the demographic crisis we face.
Kevin Dolan runs a natal conference in Austin, Texas, every year, and it’s urgently necessary that you hear him out.
As he opened one of his conferences, he gave the examples of Japan and South Korea, which show us “what may be the best-case scenario, what it might look like if you could let the air out of the balloon slowly. What that looks like is young people chained to the desk, working ever longer hours for ever lower wages, not only unable to start a family, but increasingly unable to start a family. The countryside and smaller cities abandoned as the tax base evaporates.”
With meticulous planning, Kevin says, those countries can arrange an “orderly tragedy,” and that’s the best case. “But I think Japan and Korea are beautiful places,” he says, “with beautiful people who should go on existing.” Hence his conferences, trying to figure these questions out.
“Places like China, Brazil, Russia, Thailand and Mexico,” Kevin adds, “got old before they got rich. In coming decades, these countries will be totally unable to sustain their elderly populations, even if they could stop the flight of their most productive young people, even if they worked them and taxed them to death.
Some don’t view the womb as a conquering device or ATM?