Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Louise Perry: motherhood in crisis and the feminist case for marriage | SpectatorTV" video.

  1. Today's workforce, be they indigenous or immigrant, effectively pay today's state pensions through their productivity. The problem, as France is currently wrestling with, is that more people are living longer to take advantage of those pensions and there are fewer people working to provide them. Nevermind paying for all the other services provided by the state and expected by its population. Hence the current controversial effort to try and raise the pension age there in an attempt to address the imbalance. Thus one of the major problems here isn't just the low birth rate in isolation, but the mismatch between it and the increasing aging demographics of most modern western economies.
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  2.  @davidadiwego4608  We've elected to do lots of things, but it was never down to one single choice. Medical advancements more generally from childhood vaccinations to heart medicines to cancer treatments to changing diets to better healthcare. All these things amongst many others including economic growth contribute to our longevity. What I'm saying is is that longevity whilst it might seem like a pure positive on the face of it can and does bring with it unaccounted for negative consequences.
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  3.  @davidadiwego4608  I don't think it was necessarily 'a choice' as such, but there are inevitable social, political and economic consequences for fostering the circumstances that have allowed for an increasing aging population. One way or another we need a young, fit productive workforce to support and sustain them and all these arguments are intertwined with birth rates and immigration levels and then further complicated in some people's minds by overpopulation concerns and stretched resources at both the global and national level. At the personal micro level it might be 'great' that our mums, dads and grandparents mostly live far longer than they once did, but at the macro level it presents serious enduring issues with difficult choices.
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