Comments by "believestthouthis7" (@believestthouthis7) on "Hindsight" channel.

@envoy3 Years ago, restaurants like Tim Horton's used to be the kind of place that mostly local teenagers, young adults and university students worked at. Those jobs weren't intended to support a family or to be enough to purchase a home. They used to pay even lower wages than they would today, and unless someone was a manager, only young people were even interested in working there. In places like Alberta they have raised the minimum wage to $15 + for jobs that used to pay $5 per hour. Everything is so out of wack.
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@mosquitobight The birth rate is plummeting. Overpopulation and resource scarcity are myths, but they are easy to believe when people experience overcrowded cities and job markets, etc. The truth is most people are having hardly any children, all over the world. The average family in many countries has 0 - 2 children, which is below replacement levels. That's not enough to replace older generations as they retire or to care for them as they get older. Having 3 + children in this modern age is so bizarre that many will openly criticize and mock it... That's just not common. The more educated and wealthy people are, the less children they have. That's right, the educated and wealthy Americans, Canadians, Europeans, Asians, etc., with the highest standards of living are having LESS children.
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@mosquitobight Society has it backwards and that's why we are in the state that we are. Today, educated, wealthy people have less children because they often do not believe in the value of having large families. Like you, they typically view children as primarily a burden and drain on their resources. Whereas, in the past children were considered a blessing and an asset; practically speaking, they were additional hands to help on the farm or family business and someone to care for elderly parents (before there were such thing as old age homes). Post-secondary education today has become a large waste of time and money for many people. Young adults often start out in their independent life with the huge burden of student loan debt and are struggling to make ends meet. Most people do not have their parents pay for their post-secondary education. Many people regret getting their expensive education and/or never even use their degree. Education isn't the solution. Canada already has plenty of that. The very people that in your view could be the only ones able to support a large family because they are wealthy, aren't having large families. The ones having more children in the world, typically have less money and that is the trend.
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@user-xj9vf4xb9p Maybe that's part of the problem. There's so many people getting an expensive post secondary degree and they aren't getting the high paying white collar job that they thought that they would. Meanwhile there will almost always be jobs in blue collar trades. A university education may not be the ticket. Indeed, I have known many people that regretted or never even used their degrees.
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Along the lines of what you are saying, nurturing the people who are already in Canada, I wonder why hardly anyone seems to be discussing encouraging Canadians to focus on their own families and having more children. I know the immediate response is, "It's too expensive!" However single people and people without children may not be aware that there is a substantial tax credit for each child. I was shocked to learn that low income and middle class families were receiving a monthly amount for each child. One couple shared that it literally paid their (affordable) rent! That's certainly not to say people should have children just to receive such a credit, but the point is that they could still, in this day and age, have large families and keep the mother at home to raise the next generation. When they are raised with good moral character and a strong work ethic, children become adults that contribute a great deal to society. That is how the population used to grow, by the multiplication of children in large families. Instead the fear of the cost of everything keeps people set on stopping their own fertility. The aging population gets older and there is hardly anyone in the next generation to fill their jobs or to talk care of them in their old age. This isn't just an issue in Canada, but in many countries around the world, where the governments are literally creating financial incentives for families to have children, the problem is so dire. The birth rate has been plummeting through out the world and most countries are only growing through immigration, which can be an almost artificial kind of growth, as you mentioned those people may leave and/or not end up contributing more than they are receiving.
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@mista_yann462 You're absolutely right. It is a waste. Trade and technical schools are a wiser choice because they are more affordable and teach practical skills to get a job in a fraction of the time it takes to finish an expensive degree.
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@mosquitobight An aging population is a good thing but not when there isn't enough younger people to care for them. There are companies recruiting nurses to immigrate from overseas to come and take care of the sick and elderly because they lack workers. They are also developing technology to use robotics and AI for nursing to do the same thing in the future. That's what happens when people live longer, they often still need medical care. Teenagers shouldn't be in the workforce? That's not very wise at all. The alternative is that they sit around with idle hands, getting into trouble and not preparing for their futures. It's a good thing to learn about the value of money and what it takes to earn and save it, to save for a first car, etc. There are ambitious teenagers taking trade courses in high school so that they can start working and making decent money right away. They can bypass and expensive post secondary education entirely because it's dar from a necessity. If a teenager is sitting around playing video games and then wasting even more time and money with university in their twenties they squandered a valuable time in their life to get a running start. They will wake up in their mid-twenties or thirties wondering why they have so much student loan debt, yet still can't get a decent job and perhaps wonder why they didn't just go learn a trade earlier. The best time for them to have started preparing for their future was when they were young.
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I have heard some people say that they expect the housing bubble to burst in the not so distant future. They are waiting to invest once prices go down. In their opinion, the prices are unsustainable and they cannot keep going up forever. Personally I wouldn't invest in stocks because that carries too much risk. I would think it would be wise to hold off on buying unless someone sees an amazing deal or they absolutely must move. Whereas if someone is in the position to wait, they may find better deals in the future. To preserve wealth in the meantime someone can put their money into low risk tangible assets.
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@coolioso808 In the end any problem in society is due to sin. It's as simple as that and most want to ignore it.
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@coolioso808 I think what you're trying to draw attention to is the "love of money", which the Bible calls, "the root of all evil". The Creator of the universe and everything in it, isn't some dummy, like you may assume. 1 Timothy 6:6-10 KJV 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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