Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "Why China's population is shrinking" video.

@favlam1408 No, US has a relatively high birth rate. Most wealthy nations have a birth rate of 1.4~ or so while the US' at 1.7. And the people crying about overpopulation were fools. The US' throws away large chunks of its food every year to artificially keep prices low for the farmers. Wishing for less people sounds nice until you realize that the process to get there requires getting rid of the old people so they don't burden the state. And also that many mundane prices skyrocket with less people buying them.
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@asdfghjkl Your logic is skewed. The Nordic countries have the largest support for maternity and worker's rights in the world and have LOWER birth rates than the US. Also productivity doesn't matter when measuring how much wealth a person gets. Not when living standards rise as a response to it. No amount of taxing the rich fixes that.
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 @ziiiim You can't use immigrants to fix the issue when it's too late. The point is to have them BEFORE it reaches that point where the country is full of the elderly
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 @TheMolabola The continent hasn't really been getting much attention more than usual. When it does, it's in reaction to something like the Ukraine War or China's Belt and Road thing.
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@Mikasa12 As stated, it's hardly just a China issue. Across the wealthy nations there is also low birth rates, it's only in the poorest nations that maintain high birth rates.
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@kimcheezy3433 That's because the issue is something you don't want to acknowledge. The countries with the best maternity support also have some of the lowest birth rates on the planet. But you people keep crying about it while ignoring the facts.
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 @itisprofile Not quite. US birth rates remain surprisingly high despite everything. Something like 1.7 birth rate for the average US woman
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 @Balloonbot Idk, Americans are religious and have access to birth control and have a relatively high birth rate to boot.
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@Monica France already taxes the rich and it doesn't fix anything, though it is a nice revenue stream. You guys need to stop acting like taxing the rich is some quick fix to everything
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@Kekimus So will you when you realize that you are old and there aren't enough young people to pay for your retirement so they decide to cut your life support instead
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@Just Ori No such thing as an economy that can survive a falling population when that process is based on less young people and more old people.
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 @fulanichild3138 Every economic model is based on growth. Or they're based on oppression while still relying on growth.
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 @ericktellez7632 US has far more social safety nets than China does, and US has far more children than most of Europe or China. So have fun with that.
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@walrus2515 That's wrong anyway. Latinos tend to be wealthier than Blacks and Latinos have a higher birth rate. Also, worse socio economic conditions can and often are part and parcel of internal culture. Privilege is being in a wealthy nation, all peoples in such a nation are privileged.
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@Mohamed Hussein No it's not. US has maintained its age for decades now, mostly due to immigration and a relatively high birth rate.
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@Fav Lam You're right, but having support for young people literally doesn't work. Even the Nordic countries have low birth rates, lower than the US' in fact
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@pringers Apparently the Chinese themselves say otherwise. Also I really doubt Silicon workers have such work weeks when they're among the most left-wing of peoples and would agitate rather than take it.
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