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Originally Posted by kerowo
LMAO. I don't assume a problem for white society is a problem for humanity. I'm also curious what you want to do about this problem?
It is not only a problem for white countries, do you acknowledge that? do you understand that countries like china, south korea and japan have lower fertility than france, denmark and the USA? even if you only check white fertility rate in those western societies?
SO this is first and foremost an asian problem. And those 3 countries decided, for various reason, not to fix it through immigration.
So, what do i want to do for fertility rate? allowing for decent immigration in western countries, as i said already. That is more than enough for now.
If the problem persists or exacerbate, we will see some real damages to japan, s korea, china in the next 20-30 years. We will also see what they will do to fix it, what will work and what won't work. We don't have to commit to any strategy right now. We can wait and see because other people will have to deal with it before we do.
Unfortunately the solution that comes to mind to any economist (= incentives) doesn't seem to solve the problem (yes, i admit that sounds incredible). But fertility rate are really low even in countries with a very good welfare system for families. Maybe incredibly bigger incentives could have some effect.
But what if they are not enough? then i don't know. But technology is changing really fast. And this problem isn't extremely relevant yet (except perhaps for singapore? but they are small so their solutions could be non replicable at scale).
Technology could provide in vitro childbirth for the whole duration of pregnancy for example. Or many other things (robots as discussed that decrease the need for humans).
But that's too far off in the future to make proper plans. For now a trickling of immigration would be enough (0.2/0.3% of population per year).