Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Demographics Part 5: The Chinese Collapse" video.

I'm Australian and we have been hearing off and on for years now that we have a similar problem. Its just gotten so expensive to have children that its now very difficult for people to have them. COMPOUNDING that is the explosive cost of housing in Australia. Basically our entire nation got drunk on property prices over the last 25+ years. Its been great for the investment orientated baby boomers and an utter disaster for the rest of us. We have tried to make up for a falling birth rate with immigration but that has brought its own set of issues.
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@chriswatson1698 No it doesn't. As Peter has often pointed out urbanisation has far more to do with lowering the birth rate than anything, Following urbanisation the next biggest factor in falling birth rates is the education of women. Yeah I know it sounds incredibly patriarchal but the fact is the more educated women get the fewer children they have. Every time somebody analyses census data and shows it the feminists go nuts. Go watch the start of the film Idiocracy, its actually very close to the truth. As for Australia's housing issues its NOT so much an immigration issue but a collection of idiotic economic policies. Its like a disease that has slightly different symptoms in each patient. In Australia it shows up mainly in our housing market. In America it shows up in their health care. In Britain its currently showing up in their electricity market. Make no mistake they are all symptoms of the same disease. I'm, an engineer and a few years back started informally studying economics because I got so frustrated with interference on projects by clowns with economics degrees. I just wanted to be able to push back at their nonsense. I've watched and listened to a lot of pretty smart well credentialed people here on YT. Its how I ended up watching a lot of Peter Z. His explanations of geopolitics helps explain a lot of this stuff at the macro level, especially when you add it into what some of the economists have been saying for a while. Go watch the channel Gary's Economics here on YT. Gary Stevenson graduated from the LSE and went to work for Citibank where he was there top trader in the world for a couple of years. But he comes from a working class and could see how things were affecting people. So he went of to Oxford and did a masters. His explanations of why economics is failing are brilliant. Go watch his video titled "Why are economists always wrong?"
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@chriswatson1698 Just stop being stupid and wasting people's time and just google "fertility rate versus education" You'll find dozens of studies from all over the developed world. If you take a country like Bangladesh and start educating the girls then you will get exactly the fall in fertility rate that's seen and they will start asking for contraception BECAUSE THEY'LL KNOW WHAT IT IS. Go compare Bangladesh to India and Pakistan. India started educating their girls then Bangladesh and Pakistan have barely started.
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