You (the newlyweds) are supposed to give them to friends, acquaintances, and extended family. The traditional ones are very dry and sweet, so most people don’t eat them in the end.
All my life for the first fifty years I was warned about the inevitable population bomb- populatio would invariably mathematically increase (thank you, Dr Malthus). Now I’m told population will invariably mathematically decrease
Ever consider the possibility you might not know the technological, economic, or cultural situation fifty years from now?
Ehrlich just died:
Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With ‘The Population Bomb,’ Dies at 93
His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement. But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature.
You’re right.
The baby boomer generation scared the world. Like locusts they swarmed in and scared us all.
What do your eyes tell you? That we have enough kids? Or that the world can’t support all these people?
Japan going for extinction as well.
Only 4% each of men and women said, “superiors and colleagues in the workplace.” Companies may face the possibility of their employees suddenly submitting their resignations to balance work and child care responsibilities.
How rude not consulting your boss about having a baby. Those poor companies.
IT’s why the single expats need to see themselves like Saudi potentates.
Spread the seed with like 40 partners and ensure the national copulates, repopulates and reinvigorates.
The most important sentence of that essay is “extreme projections of current trends tend not to come true."
“Taiwan has lower than replacement birthrates? The human race will rapidly become extinct!”
Perhaps this is a solution to the Fermi Paradox? Sentient beings, once they become intelligent enough, eventually stop breeding, become senile and die out. Thus never reaching the technological capability of intergalactic space travel.
As for population predictions, I’m going with sub-Saharan population growth slowing within the next 5 years. I’m going against the flow with that one.
“Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.”
– Mark Twain
Me too. I confine myself to predicting things that have already happened.
I was talking about growth in absolute terms, if that’s the point you are making?
Correct Taiwan has much lower birthrate than replacement rate. World record low. This is already a BIG deal. What’s worse is that it is pretty much 100% baked in that the number of kids will continue to decrease. There’s almost nothing that can be done to stop it as the number of child bearing age women decreases rapidly, even if they brought in immigrants to have families it will still decrease but at a slightly slower rate.
We got robots coming soon, but robots don’t have kids, don’t make marriage partners , don’t buy houses and goods and don’t pay taxes.
For me I don’t like to live in a super aged society, it lacks energy and economic opportunities.
Can you cite an instance of that happening to some society?
We’re hardly at the point where “nothing can be done” to stop the declining birth rate. We’re at the point where little is being done to stop the declining birth rate but with a population of 23 million there’s still plenty of time to figure something out.
I think Taiwan should make Johnny Sins a cultural ambassador. And that every Eurasian birth gets a 20,000,000 government subsidy.
Totally agree.That would be 60,000,000 for me.
I’d fuck like a rabbit for a guaranteed 60,000,000 a pop. i’m a Yank though and we’re notoriously over-sexed so it doesn’t take much incentive for us to procreate.
Then skip Europe - it’s becoming the western world’s retirement home. Just look at the PIGS countries lol