I feel that people underestimate the impact of this.
The current world economy is built on the assumption that the population pyramid is a pyramid, if there’s a glut in the influx of healthy new citizens a whole slew of supply chains will collapse.
On the demand side - but how would automation/AI/robotics impact the supply/production side (i.e. will we replace the unborn would-be new workers with new robots)?
> The current world economy is built on the assumption that the population pyramid is a pyramid
And this is an economic system problem. The solution to an economic problem is not more people
The solution to an economic problem is revamping the economic system aka more share of wealth going to average people than merely the wealthy sitting on compounding growth.
Whole slews of supply chains collapse all the time. Just look at some rust-belt factories. Or take a look at some 80's computer magazines, where there are an endless number of software companies selling pascal and lisp compilers, BBS software, etc. Not to mention floppy disc drives and CD-ROM drives.
> I feel that people underestimate the impact of this.
Do they? As a non-American just watching in, I got the impression that Trump won on this very issue, promising that "Christian family values" would bring about a reversal. That was certainly the message, when taken at face value (I understand many believe that it is trying to mask other motives), that made it out of the USA, at least. That suggests to me that the concern is there.
I expect most people do understand the impact, but, much like climate change, don't know how to actually bring about the change that is needed without infringing on the life they want to live.
Replacement migration doesn't really have to do with the absolute numbers in the world but admitting immigrants from countries that have well above replacement rate. The world population is so large that the countries who desire increased population have a loooooong runway.
The only problem, exemplified by the Windrush Generation in the UK, is the rampant racism towards the people who are immigrating to help you.
Yeah, and we might have stood a chance at constructive reform had so much of the population not fallen for the siren song of fascism, itself just a different lazy option offered by the elites. Same old story - they turn the screws of extraction as long as they can get away with it, and when the jig is up they contain the ire by making sure it's directed at superficially different individuals.
brtkdotse|1 year ago
The current world economy is built on the assumption that the population pyramid is a pyramid, if there’s a glut in the influx of healthy new citizens a whole slew of supply chains will collapse.
ido|1 year ago
nine_zeros|1 year ago
And this is an economic system problem. The solution to an economic problem is not more people
The solution to an economic problem is revamping the economic system aka more share of wealth going to average people than merely the wealthy sitting on compounding growth.
rhelz|1 year ago
randomdata|1 year ago
Do they? As a non-American just watching in, I got the impression that Trump won on this very issue, promising that "Christian family values" would bring about a reversal. That was certainly the message, when taken at face value (I understand many believe that it is trying to mask other motives), that made it out of the USA, at least. That suggests to me that the concern is there.
I expect most people do understand the impact, but, much like climate change, don't know how to actually bring about the change that is needed without infringing on the life they want to live.
barbequeer|1 year ago
ttyprintk|1 year ago
rustcleaner|1 year ago
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Spivak|1 year ago
The only problem, exemplified by the Windrush Generation in the UK, is the rampant racism towards the people who are immigrating to help you.
mindslight|1 year ago
greenhearth|1 year ago