Comments by "" (@victormeidan1062) on "BBC World Service" channel.

It is the absolute numbers that are the issue. The problem is that there will be many elderly pensioners and proportionally less working age people to support them. You get an inverted population pyramid. This will mean a global great depression.
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You do not understand the problem. You will have many pensioners supported by a smaller, ever-shrinking population of working age people. This means a fall in productivity, greater taxes, much higher inflation and a prolonged era of Global Depression.
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@eltonguapyassu Who's gonna pay your pension when you retire? According to your argument, the best of both Worlds is that everyone does not have kids. Some people do not understand basic economics.
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@scottcook2643 Ideally, Birth rates over the World should average 2.1 kids per couple. That would keep the population stable, the economy stable and with no horrible f belipments down the line.
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It is NOT the absolute number of people which is the issue. The problem is that in the near future, there will be many pensioners and too few working-age people to fund their retirement. This means a prolonged era of global economic Depression.
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That is typical far leftist, nihilistic- progressive rubbish. The Earth is not dying. You need to stop looking at humanity as a blight on the planet.
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 @boxhedge22 Yes. Jihadis.
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 @soulfulfreedomheart2505 You mean that silly old Commie fool who now lives in London ?
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@KarnBrady-w8p No, it is a happy period. The evil of international Palestinianism is being progressively removed from the World.
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@nigelbenn4642 That is typical progressive, far leftist nonsense. It views humanity as a "blight" on the planet like a fungal infection on an orange. You are blind that as the proportion of pensioners increases and those of working age shrink, productivity will collapse, inflation will rise and the World will enter an era of Global Depression.
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Because if people do not have kids, who will work to fund your pension ? The idea of DINKS ie "Double Income No Kids" is a Ponzi Scheme. It creates higher productivity, bigger wages, less costs so long as the couple is working. But what happens when all these DINKS couples retire ? The entire economic system collapses. You get a severe and protracted Great Depression.
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Typical Leftist Nihilistic Claptrap..
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 @nopenopenope678 Nonsense ! There will be proportionally alot more pensioners but less people of working age to support them. This will create a Global Depression.
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@csuporj No, house prices will collapse. But taxes on working aged people will rise to gigantic levels. Even then, those taxes will be insufficient to give the elderly a decent pension. Those people who adopt the DINKS (Double Income No Kids) lifestyle are not cheating the system. What they are doing is running an enormous Ponzi Scheme. All the money that they are now saving by not having babies, will have to be paid back when these people become pensioners.
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@Ella-g2m If you make the rich pay alot more taxes, they would simply move to another country where they pay less.
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