Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Why Macron Wants France to Have More Babies" video.

  1. Cost of living on the basics in life and lack of time probably are a big factor in wanting less kids or no kids at all. Fix those two problems by having people where they've got more time to have kids and look after kids, and find solutions in lowering the burden of cost of living, and maybe that would be more of an incentive for people to have more kid. Unfortunately, at least in the west, the work-life balance discourages people wanting kids because of lack of time, money needed and so on, European countries do much better than the US when it comes to work-life balance, but again, this is all painting around the cracks, more radical measures are going to be needed if they want westerners to have more babies, which might actually come about with A.I. and robotics if it ends up taking over most of the work force and frees us to work on things we actually want to work for without worrying about bills, that would also allow a lot more people to want to have more kids. Either way, this is becoming a problem not just for western countries but many countries around the world, and part of that problem is that we've had a massive population boom over the last 50 years and now things are not balanced with a big decline in birth rates, which by the way, population decline isn't really a bad thing, but at the rate it's happening, it is, because of the burden it could put on the young, which ironically, A.I. and robotics could solve that problem in the coming decades, but either way, it's probably better to have a balanced system of replacement rate for the population so you don't get these wild swings from young and old. I should also point out that immigration is only papering over the cracks, more radical change in society is needed from the bottom up if we want things to really change, hence why many of the policies many governments have tried are not working or are having minimum impact.
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