It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: CptGreenTea
a reply to: anonentity
I think new generations are feeling less inclined to have kids and waiting till financial stability.
Its a good thing. We dont need more people right now.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: CptGreenTea
a reply to: anonentity
I think new generations are feeling less inclined to have kids and waiting till financial stability.
Its a good thing. We dont need more people right now.
NO, we don't need more people.
Except for maybe Capitalism. You have to have people to spend money -- on what they don't need.
Maybe less people will require new thought. Let's hope.
originally posted by: v1rtu0s0
Without progressively more people and more debt the fractional reserve currency system will collapse and the economy will be destroyed. Although it's gonna happen already in a more controlled collapse.
Recorded on June 14 at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC.
In 1970, Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich published a famous book, The Population Bomb, in which he described a disasterous future for humanity: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.” That prediction turned out to be very wrong, and in this interview American Enterprise Institute scholar Nicholas Eberstadt tells how we are in fact heading toward the opposite problem: not enough people. For decades now, many countries have been unable to sustain a population replacement birth rate, including in Western Europe, South Korea, Japan, and, most ominously, China. The societal and social impacts of this phenomenon are vast. We discuss those with Eberstadt as well as some strategies to avoid them.
Nicholas Eberstadt: The work rate, this is another part, Peter, of this new misery, the big problems hiding in plain sight in America for some reason. The work rate, the employment to population ratio was as we'd say for men, civilian non-institutional men, 25 to 54 years of age is as we speak, worse than it was in the 1940 census, which was taken as you indicate in March of '40, when the national unemployment rate was 15%. So we right now have depression level employment rates for prime-age men in the US.
The one thing that I would caution about is that we have 40 years of poison distributed through our societies through an increasingly maligned university system. And we have seen a Gramscian march through the institutions of severely problematic points of view, in the old days, would've been unmockingly called unAmerican, or anti-American. We have that poison to drain from our society before we can, I think really flourish again. But that's certainly not impossible either. It looks hard right now, but if you recall, 1979, what 1979 looked like, very few people would've bet at that moment where we'd end up at on Christmas day in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR.