Weāre certainly not going to get into the 30 millions anytime soon.
The problem with the discarded able-bodied old people argument is the majority of them are in a position not to work. Boomers, and now a lot of Gen X, either have enough passive income not to reenter the workforce - or they are unable to. Having said that, the numbers of them who have to/want to do this is definitely increasing.
Iāll definitely continue to work when I no longer need to financially.
Yeah, my mother just retired for health reasons at 77. She would have gone to 90 if she was healthy and could have retired decades earlier. If you enjoy what you do, if it is hybrid, etc. why slow down?
A dystopian solution would be to harvest eggs and sperm from the population, maybe in return for entry to a new lottery system. Then use female migrant workers as surrogates, and start a government child rearing department, again staffed by the foreign workers. After a couple of generations of this, the language of Taiwan would shift to a creole of English/Tagalog/Bahasa
Alternatively, they could just provide permanent migration pathways for foreign workers and incentives for births.
Ooooh! Iāll now be waiting for Taiwanās Kazuo Ishiguro to write this up as a speculative novel. If you throw in AI I think we might have a book here.
The report is wrong ,.AFAIK more boys are born than girls due to sex selection. They canāt get anything right in these reports.
AI says this.
Taiwan faces a significant gender imbalance at birth, with the number of male births consistently exceeding female births. While the ānaturalā sex ratio at birth is considered to be around 104 to 106 males per 100 females, Taiwanās ratio has often been higher, with a 2021 report noting a ratio of 107.74 males to every 100 females.
The ratio of boys born to girl born is decreasing but still shows artificial sex selection.bias for boys (which is illegal but still prevalent).
Yes why itās accelerating now is due to the negative feedback loop of a smaller pool of potential parents naturally leading to a smaller pool of children nationally.
The only thing that will make any dent at all is having immigrants coming here and having children. Where would we find them I wonder ?
The rate of less kids being born will make each generation exponentially smaller. As there are less kids being born now its just going to keep declining unless something changes, it wont just settle.
āJohn Stuart Mill defined the stationary state as a future economic phase where population and capital growth cease, moving beyond endless accumulation to a sustainable, high-level society focused on human improvement rather than mere wealth. Unlike predecessors who feared it, Mill welcomed this, viewing it as essential for ecological stability, better distribution, and mental/cultural progress.ā
You can skip all the nonsense and just go to the Household Registration office. We did that, and just invited a bunch of friends for a lunch party afterwards. It helps that my wife thinks the biscuits taste awful and that none of us was interested in photoshoots. We had a wonderful time, didnāt waste any money on traditions we donāt care about, and are very happily married.