Not surprising. Fertility rates are in free fall across most of the world. Our current understanding of economics is largely predicated on the assumption that each successive generation is going to be the same size or larger than the previous generation.
In part because Economic Theory has essentially been stuck at some variation of Keyenisian versus Austrian School for the last 75-100 odd years. And hasn’t meaningfully advanced past that.
So we don’t really have a frame of reference for what happens when that fundamental assumption is no longer the case.
Rather than chart uncharted ground. Various Governments and Corporations have decided importing labor in order to kick the Demographic Bomb down the road is preferable.
There’s social programs that need rescued and so on. And you can’t keep funding them without a tax base. The unspoken secondary problem.
Is also for the past century. The prevailing schools of philosophical and economic thought. Have largely treated people as blank slates. Instead of distinct cultures, nations, and individuals. Essentially interchangeable cogs. With there being no difference between the average European and the somewhat inbred subsaharan Islamic fishermen from bumfuck nowhere Somalia.
Essentially the gist of it. Further compounding the difficulty is the only real plausible solution, at the moment at least, to put the kibosh on the mass importation of foreigners. Is Robotics and AI.
The problems and public resistance with it are all well known and documented at this point.
And if we put a halt to all immigration tomorrow and began mass deportation of everyone who shouldn’t be here.
It becomes the fact there will be an utter lack of Americans to fill all the positions that will need filled. Especially because so many of them don’t pay worth a damn.
And for a variety of reasons and problems, including both political, economic, and philosophical ones. We’re unlikely to spike the birthrates to the necessary degree. To alleviate the need for AI and Robotics supplementing the workforce. In part because the solutions to the birthrate problems are liable to be difficult and uncomfortable both to acknowledge exist, let alone even make the effort to attempt to solve.
There’s not going to be full employment. Current predominate Economic theories rely on their being a certain percentage of unemployment. Full employment isn’t considered desirable. Much like how zero inflation is also not considered desirable economics wise.
And at the moment. A significant percentage of people want a total ban on immigration. Including the legal kind and especially the work programs. Considering how heavily Corporations have abused them to avoid hiring Americans.
and considering how we are paying for our replacement by THEIR fertility . . . !
"birth right" anchor babies, chain migration, the welfare they get that citizens do not, etc.
Have you heard young couples complain that they can only afford . . . 0, 1, or 2 max children? Feature of replacement migration, not a flaw.
And where would their kids go?? "Entry level" homes have disappeared. A traditional mid-size ranch house that went for $200k a decade ago, is now OVER $400K! Even with a 20% down payment, a young two income family cannot qualify for the mortgage payments. That is just sadly the reality.
So my kid and family moved back in with us, whereas I always wanted them to have their own $200K home!! They have the most adorable grand-baby, with another on the way! In previous decades they would have had their own home, but at least they are willing to have a family! God Bless them for their optimism!
The left and some on the right have always looked at it as a sort of Ponzi scheme. You must always have a bigger and bigger population base to fund big government, big government benefits and the economy. But that fails if you go to smaller government, less welfare programs and most importantly, increased productivity through AI, robotics, education, work ethic and low unemployment.
The use of human beings as pawns or props.
The use of our loving and accepting natures as a weapon against our sovereignty.
The left is demonically evil.
Yes, I agree and you put it so well.
Not surprising. Fertility rates are in free fall across most of the world. Our current understanding of economics is largely predicated on the assumption that each successive generation is going to be the same size or larger than the previous generation.
In part because Economic Theory has essentially been stuck at some variation of Keyenisian versus Austrian School for the last 75-100 odd years. And hasn’t meaningfully advanced past that.
So we don’t really have a frame of reference for what happens when that fundamental assumption is no longer the case.
Rather than chart uncharted ground. Various Governments and Corporations have decided importing labor in order to kick the Demographic Bomb down the road is preferable.
There’s social programs that need rescued and so on. And you can’t keep funding them without a tax base. The unspoken secondary problem.
Is also for the past century. The prevailing schools of philosophical and economic thought. Have largely treated people as blank slates. Instead of distinct cultures, nations, and individuals. Essentially interchangeable cogs. With there being no difference between the average European and the somewhat inbred subsaharan Islamic fishermen from bumfuck nowhere Somalia.
So people are not citizens, they are widgets.
"With there being no difference between the average European and the somewhat inbred subsaharan Islamic fishermen from bumfuck nowhere Somalia."
Well said.
Essentially the gist of it. Further compounding the difficulty is the only real plausible solution, at the moment at least, to put the kibosh on the mass importation of foreigners. Is Robotics and AI.
The problems and public resistance with it are all well known and documented at this point.
And if we put a halt to all immigration tomorrow and began mass deportation of everyone who shouldn’t be here.
It becomes the fact there will be an utter lack of Americans to fill all the positions that will need filled. Especially because so many of them don’t pay worth a damn.
And for a variety of reasons and problems, including both political, economic, and philosophical ones. We’re unlikely to spike the birthrates to the necessary degree. To alleviate the need for AI and Robotics supplementing the workforce. In part because the solutions to the birthrate problems are liable to be difficult and uncomfortable both to acknowledge exist, let alone even make the effort to attempt to solve.
BUT we have work programs for LEGAL immigration!
Illegal aliens are distorting wages. The numbers of Americans not in the work force or looking for employment anymore are appalling.
Basically replacement immigration has made widgets of Americans.
Until there is full employment, we can't even judge how many immigrants or robots would be needed.
There’s not going to be full employment. Current predominate Economic theories rely on their being a certain percentage of unemployment. Full employment isn’t considered desirable. Much like how zero inflation is also not considered desirable economics wise.
And at the moment. A significant percentage of people want a total ban on immigration. Including the legal kind and especially the work programs. Considering how heavily Corporations have abused them to avoid hiring Americans.
and considering how we are paying for our replacement by THEIR fertility . . . !
"birth right" anchor babies, chain migration, the welfare they get that citizens do not, etc.
Have you heard young couples complain that they can only afford . . . 0, 1, or 2 max children? Feature of replacement migration, not a flaw.
And where would their kids go?? "Entry level" homes have disappeared. A traditional mid-size ranch house that went for $200k a decade ago, is now OVER $400K! Even with a 20% down payment, a young two income family cannot qualify for the mortgage payments. That is just sadly the reality.
So my kid and family moved back in with us, whereas I always wanted them to have their own $200K home!! They have the most adorable grand-baby, with another on the way! In previous decades they would have had their own home, but at least they are willing to have a family! God Bless them for their optimism!
The left and some on the right have always looked at it as a sort of Ponzi scheme. You must always have a bigger and bigger population base to fund big government, big government benefits and the economy. But that fails if you go to smaller government, less welfare programs and most importantly, increased productivity through AI, robotics, education, work ethic and low unemployment.