Comments by "worn down" (@worndown8280) on "Demographics Part 5: The Chinese Collapse" video.

@willchristie2650 People who think automation will save us never seem to understand economies of scale. It cost a lot of money to automate. It becomes prohibitively expensive when your market for the automated goods you intend to sell is constantly shrinking because few are being born and more are dying every year. The math on the ROI never works out then. Which is the scary part. This is how civilizations collapse. And this is where Zeihan's comment, where we dont have the math for this, comes from.
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Eastern Europe is collapsing population wise and some parts were doing so right before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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@tukkajumala Respectfully, why would the trend change unless you address the underlying issue? People dont have children, women do. And now, at this time, women dont have to leverage their reproductive capacity for safety or for status. They just get a job like men do. When women have to start to do that again because the state doesnt pay benefits or employers stop employing women, then fertility rates will increase. But that wont be until after a nation state collapses. Even then it might not happen, women will do like they do in Venezuela, they leave and go to a more stable country that still has these things. But eventually the locusts run out of fields to go to and they die.
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@tukkajumala I wish it were so, I've been deployed to places where the state imploded. It's always dirty getting to the future.
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This is a problem that will fix itself. As the population implodes the nation state will implode taking all the services it provides to the ash heap of history. Women will once again have to leverage their reproductive ability for safety and security. Children at that point become the retirement plan, primarily for the woman since men often die way earlier. This is the way humanity has always been, except for the last 100 years in most of the world.
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