Btw i think incoming population decline will destroy current economic model since its based on constant growth and something else will take place.
Yes i happen to be watching doc about burth rates at moment lol
I watched it and it was pretty good, if not a bit over-dramatic. Thanks for sharing.
I think the issue is just so multi-faceted with no easy answer, and amusing that the film opens with world
over-population hysteria, then not explaining very well why that just disappeared and why everyone was so wrong, and now the under-population hysteria comes in. These things become unfortunate much like very bad prognostications about global warming etc result in sceptics thinking there is nothing to be concerned about and it's all a con.
In short, i think
1) pensions should be self-funded/paid out by contributions during a generations own lifetime for their retirement, not pyramid schemes where old people are reliant on the young people,
2) in much of the world a trend where people are living worse off than the parents before,
3) Darwinian law of reciprocity has shrunk drastically as people now prioritize more a life of appealing to people outside of the Dunbar number -- images of consumption and luxury lifestyles to appeal to amorphous blobs of largely anonymous people, as opposed to prioritizing life toward family, close friends, etc. I heard someone say everyone has all these "friends" but absolutely nobody they can depend on to help them move their furniture. This impacts ability to have close relationships and partnering; there's a loneliness epidemic happening to people across society, not just amongst elderly,
4) to the films point, tech raised folks combined with worse economic factors of having to finish a lot more schooling just means people feel freed from debt significantly later in life,
5) was interesting to see that for every child up for adoption there are ~30 families trying to adopt it. Yet so many potential children are aborted per year,
6) hypergamy dislocation that the person in the video mentioned about a family now being about two hunters and no gatherers. The entire population is strongly encouraged to prioritize career over family, increasing labor supply and lowering wages. Making having families less affordable and folks prioritizing looking for lottery tickets (people that make much more money than they do etc),
7) paradox of choice, dating apps and unrealistic expectations,
8) our base necessities of food and shelter have never been more easily met, and having those have ushered in remarkably undisciplined people who haven't been humbled by nature to have to delay gratification and be patient, and flakiness and inability to depend on others to reciprocate and build with is increasingly difficult,
9)
I think next step of the worry -- people like dogs and using them as child substitute as they are cheaper and provide affection without nearly the responsibility. i think what Elon and Jack Ma are thinking is just wait until a new entrant into the arena is the AI spouse or AI child that is programmed to your whims and desires without the stresses of having to provide financially, having headaches instead of wanting to satisfy you in any way you wish, etc. Or simply a plugged in metaverse that hijacks your neural receptors, instead of such AI robots.
In all honesty, there's probably never been a better argument for neo-ludditism, and appreciation of Amish philosophies LOL. It seems kind of odd that the advancement of nuclear weapons turns out to be a lifesaver through mutually assured disaster, yet folks on mass kind of just do a ceasing of procreation through the bread and circus capabilities of technological society playing with our brains. But at the end of the day, I believe in pendulum swings and hope folks can course correct.
