Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "It's Not Just You. No One Wants Kids Anymore." video.

  1. Why is having old people around problematic? Old people have a finite shelf life. It expires rather quickly once they reach approx. eighty years of age. The longer we keep people healthy, the less care they need at the end. Much of that care can be automated these days and the remainder will give jobs to many young people. Because, see, having a lot of young people around is very, very problematic. Why, do you think, were they fighting so many wars in the past? Because they had plenty of young men who didn't have a job. These young men weren't the first born sons, so they couldn't inherit the farm. Their older brothers couldn't keep them around because there wasn't enough food and they were aggressive because they had no future and couldn't marry, either. Becoming a soldier was one way out of that hopeless existence. You got paid and you either died quickly or you rose up the ranks and then you could actually make a life for yourself by serving a nobleman. Today we don't even have that mechanism. Look at China's population dynamics. Enormous youth unemployment and hopelessness among young males who, again, can't afford to get married. And this in a country that is aging rapidly! What, do you think, is the future going to look like in Africa where that problem is ten times as pronounced? Grim. So, yeah. Lot of old people and few young are better, not worse.
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