@TheDeej26
Maybe we need a system that doesn't rely on growth.
@ivoted-5489
Here’s a huge problem: People used to be able to pass on their gains to their children. Now, their kids have to use every last asset to pay for long term care. It’s evil what that industry has become; overpriced death factories.
@arcticpilotshow4440
When young people are struggling to settle, e.g. buying an apartment and social security is scarce, it's no wonder that having children is not on the priority list.
@lancelowery4027
My daughter is 31 and has no children. She has a lot of friends and only one of them of the same age has a child. The world around younger people has them questioning having kids at all. If Governments and corporations want workers for the future they better start paying the ones in the present.
@peterp5099
The main problem with increasing the retirement age is not riots like in France, it’s the fact that living longer doesn’t mean being longer fit and healthy enough to deliver productivity on a competitive level. In my country, retirement age was increased to 67, but barely half of the people above 60 actually get a job. You have ever seen a 65 old grandma almost dying while pulling a pallet truck at snail speed, then you understand why increasing the retirement age doesn’t solve workforce scarcity.
@Radhaun
I don't remember where I saw it, but I think the problem is pretty neatly summed up by "plants are the new pets, pets are the new children, and children are a pipe dream" in terms of how much just living costs. I don't think social media is why kids aren't dating. I think having to work wage-slave jobs and use every minute of time making money rather than connections is having a much harsher impact.
@maclambert8841
Nobody ever seems to talk about changing the current system. All we care about is bringing in more indentured servants into this world.
@skinfluithero4885
Can’t have kids if you can barely take care of yourself financially
@dominiclloyd6651
'We're living in a golden age of mental health'. I don't think I've heard anything so at odds with reality. We are actually living in a well documented mental health crisis of epidemic proportions.
@bigmike4923
As a 22 year old Canadian guy the main thing holding me back from having kids is housing. I was raised by a single parent and lived in probably 12 different apartments/houses throughout my childhood. I just want a house but the cheapest houses within an hour from me are like half a million for old shitboxes😂
@TheMuffinBagare
As a swede, we already have many of the benefits for having children (such as paid maternity/paternity leave), but we still have this same problem with a birth rate that is dropping. So it is not as easy as implementing a few policies to reverse this trend.
@phillB
Honestly, I tried to seek out less populated areas because I prefer space around me. Less population would mean less competition for resources. That’s a win-win in my mind.
@The4Tifier
I used to work full-time at a factory to make $600 CAD a week after taxes. That’s $2400 a month. A boomer would think that’s amazing, but they forget that inflation exists. Rent for a one-bedroom apartment in my area is $1500 a month. A car is also required to get to work since the factory is in the middle of nowhere, so that’s an extra $500 a month for insurance, gas, and maintenance for a used Corolla. Utilities take up $200-300 no problem. So that leaves… $100-200 a month for food, other bills, and savings… So working full-time, busting my ass at a factory and destroying my body in the process, made me working poor and forced me to rely on food stamps…?! No freaking way I’m going to afford a family or risk getting anyone pregnant when I can’t even afford to take care of myself!
@kornydad14
I have 3 kids and only one of my kids wants to have kids and only one. Why? They all said it is just too expensive and they don't think they could afford to have kids. There is the problem, right from the horses mouth. Life is just to expensive.
@Havox7
It's really hard to care about this when you mention how many young people it takes to support one old person. We young people have had the rug pulled from beneath our feet. Human productivity keeps rising as wages have stagnated since the 70's, inflation keeps rising and pay doesn't keep up, corporations use every exploit they can to dodge taxes, CEO to average employee salary keeps diverging. It seems the world is going to have to burn before these things get fixes. Especially in the Unites States.
@capo4ever334
I make $18 an hour, retirement was never an option and neither are kids
@SonnyBubba
I believe Peter Zeihan said it best: “when people were living on farms, children were free labor, so you had as many as you wanted plus one (which is how you found out you had enough). “But when people moved into urban condos, children became very loud very messy very expensive furniture, so adults have fewer of them.”
@liborrajm2916
I am from Czechia, so part of EU. Our replacement rate has already been below 2.1 for some time. We only grow in population thanks to immigration but that has its own set of problems when not handled sensibly and carefully (which I am afraid it rarely is). Millennials and certainly Gen Z are now basically openly being told to save some (significant) money for retirement rather than hope for dignified pension from government. Many people here are giving up having kids because of the high cost of raising them. I kind of wish I could fast forward 30-40years just so I could see how all of these present time issues developed and where we all ended up at.
@caryoutismusic4515
I think it’s important to include increasing automation in the mix. Mechanised farming has in the last 150 years reduced the proportion of the population working in agriculture from almost 50% to around 2%
@TwoBitDaVinci