Comments by "Immudzen" (@Immudzen) on "What will be the consequences of China's declining population? | DW News" video.

Endless growth is unsustainable. You can't just keep having more and more people. We have to learn to deal with this problem.
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@CantHandleThisCanYa Even that is not unlimited. If you actually look at how fast humans have been growing in terms of energy usage it would only take a few centuries to use the full power output of the sun.
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@bullfrog5037 An economy built on endless growth is unsustainable. We could change the economy to work with a stable system but we won't do that. It would mean paying everyone more equally instead of a few getting all the rewards. We also have a truly insane cost of housing and by the time people feel stable they are no longer interested in having more kids or even kids at all. I don't think that cities are the problem it is how we setup our economic system. I also think that renting out apartments and houses should probably be illegal, it just has too many negative side effects on the system. We have a few billionaires buying up ridiculous amounts of housing and dramatically increasing pricing in the areas. I think you should be able to buy or some kind of collective ownership in a building. This would drive prices of housing down hard and should have positive, but disruptive, impacts across the economy from what I have read.
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@MoonLightOnWater1 I judge places by what they do not what they say they want. It is very clear that countries don't want more children because they enact policies that make it harder for people to start families. Everything from policies that increase the price of housing to policies that make it too expensive to have children and policies that require people start later in life due to education requirements deter people from having children. Endless growth is also unsustainable.
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