Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Do We Need To Have More Children?" video.

  1. Part of this is that in the same time, the explosive rise of bureaucratic institutions which increase costs on EVERYONE. For example, one of the biggest factors in Healthcare inflation has been that administrators outpace physicians by roughly 100x. It's just really not feasible overall, but it's something that we've gained culturally as something of a necessity for reasons which I'm not entirely sure of. Whether it be fear of conflict or people refusing to be told no. I can't really figure it out. It's a symptom of the managerial revolution where middle managers have most control and the organizations are more complex and impersonal ruling most people's lives.
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  2. Yeah the book "the population bomb" was silly because it was written basically 2 years after we saw industrialized birth rates fall off a cliff. I don't think most of our problems can be traced to overpopulation. You have local overcrowding which can cause social tensions, but that's an administrative or social issue primarily rather than an economic one. The biggest problem economically is that people make up the economy. And socially, there has never been a period of population decline which hasn't had immense social issues. Not to mention, most periods suffer economic collapse. If you take Japan as an example, its economically all but died and has now been on 30 years of life support. What do you think happens when they slowly lose even more people overall? I don't think it'll end well. Overall, while growing populations have their issues, they're far less than losing people.
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  3. ​@@jackjones4824Tbh, the welfare state seems to decrease children by roughly half a kid as the children are the original welfare.
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  4. @@jackjones4824 Well not when they're children, but they grow up and become adults and are expected to care for their parents in their old age
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