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originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: ntech
Forget about the social security system, it's company pensions that you need to worry about first and foremost.
Google "Enron", and see what happened when the company collapsed and took its pension system with it. People who paid into their pensions their entire adult lives were left with nothing. If they ad individual investments then their money would have been safe.
Also, look at the postal service. The pensions of people who retired a decade ago are dependent on people delivering the mail today. When you pay into a post office pension you're not saving for your retirement, you're paying for the retirement of someone who have already retired.
You just better hope that by the time you retire there is enough money going into the system to support you.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: nugget1
That adds a lot of context to what we're seeing on the world stage. It's not about overpopulation; it's about too many elderly people overloading the system.
Which is why country's need to start transitioning to a system where people save for their own retirement in independently managed funds, rather than one where the current labor force pays in while the retired labor force takes out. As with social security.
That aside birthrates are dropping rapidly and there is only one reason for that which you will never concede to no matter how much evidence is ever presented so… so enjoy wasting your breath…
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: SwissMarked
That aside birthrates are dropping rapidly and there is only one reason for that which you will never concede to no matter how much evidence is ever presented so… so enjoy wasting your breath…
On top of this, Roe V Wade absolutely nails it. Surely if you wanted to reduce the population you would increase access to abortion, not decrease it.
STD rates are flying through the roof yet pregnancies are down… again… why
originally posted by: nugget1
Models have shown for some years now that birth rates are plummeting and we are nearing the point where there aren't enough younger people in the workforce to support those aging out and retiring.
That adds a lot of context to what we're seeing on the world stage. It's not about overpopulation; it's about too many elderly people overloading the system.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
How about the fact that the covid lockdown effectively locked people out of fertility services
originally posted by: DaRAGE
www.nichd.nih.gov...
The above article has references/citations listed and is from 2/8/2018.
About 9% of men and about 11% of women of reproductive age in the United States have experienced fertility problems.1
originally posted by: TDDAgain
We had a 20% twenty percent drop in just one year and people are like "birth rates declined for years".
Yes, yes, that's true but does not muster the intelligence to grasp that a 20% decline is not normal and has not happened for decades on a yearly basis.
Sheeesh I wished some would use their brains instead of making flat simplistic comments like that.
originally posted by: JAGStorm
Even without Covid/Vaccines birth rates are down all over.
I’ve read there are so many reasons, obesity, synthetic clothing, food & supplements,
Lack of health of both genders, endocrine disrupters in food, air, water, clothing, grooming products.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
How about the fact that the covid lockdown effectively locked people out of fertility services
I really don't think people have put into context just how bad health wise the lockdowns were, especially for kids.
originally posted by: TDDAgain
a reply to: JAGStorm
Actually it's the other way around. It is known historically that people have more sex when they have nothing else to do. Prolonged power outages, snow storms and other similar crisis. We even have jokes here about that, old jokes. You are trying to connect not getting new partners with instant baby generation decline. That's not how it works.
We all were in such a situation and the birth rates decline by a huge amount more.
originally posted by: TDDAgain
We had a 20% twenty percent drop in just one year and people are like "birth rates declined for years".
Couples seemed to have been busy during the pandemic.
For the first time in seven years, birth rates in the United States increased – albeit by only 1%.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics revealed there were 3,659,289 babies born in 2021, the first rise in births since 2014. Past years had seen a steady birth decrease of 2%, according to ABC News.
The data comes after births dropped 4% — dubbed the “baby bust” — in 2020 during the pandemic. Combined with COVID-19 deaths, it caused a decrease in population.
U.S. Birth Rate 1950-2022
Fertility Rate
The current birth rate for U.S. in 2022 is 12.012 births per 1000 people, a 0.09% increase from 2021.
The birth rate for U.S. in 2021 was 12.001 births per 1000 people, a 0.09% increase from 2020.
The birth rate for U.S. in 2020 was 11.990 births per 1000 people, a 0.09% increase from 2019.
The birth rate for U.S. in 2019 was 11.979 births per 1000 people, a 0.09% increase from 2018.