Comments by "Roger Smith" (@rogersmith8339) on "Demographic Collapse Has Started" video.

Not having kids has meant that 3 of my 4 siblings are leading very comfortably with no mortgages, yachts and motor homes etc while only ever having ordinary jobs. Sounds like a win-win situation to me. The other thing that many people forget is that it will gradually start to end the ever increasing price of housing as there will start to be a surplus.
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How did the kids like their special times with the priests?
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 @eleveneleven572 Catholics and Freemasons often go hand in hand which is why the priests get away with what they do.
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@bath_neon_classical It is compulsory at boarding schools, hence why all the MPs are odd.
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Population collapse is part of evolution and happens to address overpopulation in every species. The mega wealthy do not really like it because it means they cannot have loads of poor people to keep them in luxury.
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@minniemoe4797 It would certainly help with reducing their interest in choirboys and girls.
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Only when by chance it turns out you might be right, otherwise you are still just a tommy tanker as ever.
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The chavs still seem to be having hoards of kids round here so that they get bigger houses and more benefits.
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@skylinefever Spot on! Only one of my 4 siblings had kids and then only two, one of whom had two of their own. Too many people feel pressured into having kids because it is expected of them. This is heavily promoted by big business as it means an ever increasing profit source.
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This sounds all wrong because in so many areas you cannot get into a school anywhere near to where you live. It all sounds like Gruniad rubbish to me.
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Schools are being closed to sell off the land to the council's free mason mates for peanuts so that they can build more houses and make huge profits.
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@newtonia-uo4889 Prior to proper free public education, if you were poor you had very little chance in life unless you were extremely lucky and extremely clever naturally. My education and that of my siblings enabled us to break free of the poverty we were born into and now live pretty comfortable lives. Many of our rich and powerful "leaders" would love to see the end to free education (and are trying to end it via the back door) to keep us in our place.
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@kaizokujimbei143 From the way you talk you must be a yankee as I have no idea what half of what you are saying means or why you have your odd ideas. Perhaps I am extremely lucky regarding my schooling, like my 4 siblings. None of us went to Uni after school and my brother and I both did old school apprenticeships in engineering which made us highly employable to the point that I never failed to get a job that I actually wanted, working for 5 different companies before retiring early to enjoy my life. My best teachers at school were the ones who taught me how to learn and as I have remarked elsewhere, way too many parents these days don't have enough wisdom to even raise their kids properly let alone educate them to any useful degree.
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@SirBlackReeds More to the point, how about all the dole scrounging chavs with loads of kids who have never worked a day in their lives and whose kids never will either!
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All this subcontracting of everything is thanks to good old Auntie! Maggie.
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@demonking86420 Maybe that is the image that is portrayed.
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@ICEknightnine And quite rightly so!
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@NostyFripples But did he really say that or was it some clever AI making it seem like he did?
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@Gadfly333 I really used to love trying to make babies as often as possible with as many women as possible, but some how I never succeeded. Great fun trying though!
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Why is it a crisis? Do you believe the sneaky lies of big business who just love a booming population?
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@JohnSmith-sb2fp Now that is a bizarre conclusion if ever I heard one.
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The lack of pupils thing is a lie to disguise cuts in education. Round here it is hard to get places in many schools. They just don't want small schools as they are often so much better than the big ones.
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Perhaps they want a population that is more socially aware and able to get on with others rather than people with no social skills and very narrow views inherited from their parents?
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@aikighost There are more parents who I would not trust to raise let alone educate their children than all the teachers in England! The other thing is that only pretty well off people could afford to do it half decently without making huge sacrifices that could impact the child's wellbeing in other ways.
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@kaizokujimbei143 What is with this property of the state thing? As for kids who don't get to interact with their peers and really only get to interact with their parents and their friends, they tend to become social misfits. I was brought up in a very small community and although I went to a very good state school I lived too far from my school mates to get to interact with them out of school. I think I have a good idea of the effect of home schooling or as it seems to be trendy to call it, non schooling. I have to accept that it does seem to work for some kids with special needs, but they have no chance of a decent life anyway.
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@kaizokujimbei143 I guess you are an American by your use of the term public schools to refer state schools when in proper English a public school is one where rich people send their brats to get an excellent education and a guaranteed head start in life. But I guess most Americans are pretty stupid anyway so you wouldn't know.
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@aikighost Good old Beni had some pretty good ideas about how the ordinary people should run the country rather than a few wealthy people.
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@newtonia-uo4889 Although my senior school was a fair size for it's day it was very community based with pupils coming from all the local villages and teachers nearly all locals. In those days teaching was about educating pupils with no indoctrination of weird ideas. Even religious education was pretty unbiased although obviously mostly focused on Protestant / C of E Christianity because that was what the national religion was.
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@newtonia-uo4889 The school had a strong PTA of which mum was part. Neither of my parents were what you would call educated as they both left school quite young in those days. Dad started out in the rural economy then got into engineering in WW2 (RAF). He was very practical, coming from the make do and mend generation and did impart much of that on myself and my brother and sisters. School gave me the technical education I could never have got at home, physics, chemistry, maths and access to really good woodwork and metal workshops. There was no national curriculum in those days and schools tailored their teaching to suit the local industries. We even had a small farm where you learned about the rural skills as many of us would end up working in that economy.
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@Sentinel82 I guess I must be but that is just a reflection on the broader society today. They have become de-powered and have to please the parents rather than get on with proper teaching and instilling discipline in the brats of the entitled generation.
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@Sentinel82 I have seen the points you raise quoted as one of the causes of the mass shootings in the USA, especially the school ones and it certainly seems probable.
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@nothanksnoname7567 Sounds like a badge of honour to be a problem!
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@kaizokujimbei143 Again, what is this thing about children not belonging to big brother? Unless you have had an extremely broad education yourself and are pretty clever, how can you give your children a suitable similar education. Those who would deny their kids a decent education will condemn them to pretty limited chances in life, just like it used to be before the "National Schools" were introduced. I confess to following my father into engineering (at a somewhat higher level) but only because I have a real aptitude for it. In olden days you virtually had to follow your father's footsteps which suited the wealthy perfectly.
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@OnlyTwoShoes I hate to say it, but that has been tried so many times before (probably should not mention Ruby Ridge) and it always fails for various reasons linked to human nature. Not sure if you have heard of a book called Animal Farm but it clearly explains the issues. The closest that idea came to working properly was when wealthy philanthropic Victorians like Cadbury set up communities around their factories but that relied on a very hierarchical approach.
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@nothanksnoname7567 In what context? Are you referring to the original article about populations not continually increasing?
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@OnlyTwoShoes New towns are something very different from communes as they have definite structure and order. Totnes in Devon has a history of communes / communities but over time they have faded away or become something very different from what they started out as. Some of these were set up by like minded (very) wealthy individuals but they still faded with time. The big commune in Copenhagen is starting to collapse as is the big one in the USA which has featured in various documentaries.
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@deadwolf3607 The problem with the social skills thing is that kids need to discover how they interact with others early on and mostly with people you would not normally come into contact with. If this does not happen they will find life in the grown up world of work very tough to adjust to.
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@Texarmageddon There will always be some kids who just don't fit in, but it is the normal kids who will have difficulty getting on with strangers when they go out into the grown up world. The other thing is how many parents will be able to spot a kid with a particular talent/ aptitude for something and be able to bring out the best in them. Art, language and music are classic examples although in my case it was maths and the sciences where I excelled and neither of my parents could have helped with that.
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@AM-nd9nl Every one is different and always will be despite what they are taught or by who they are taught. They may share knowledge but will use it differently.
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@wandahaines7143 No, but is it the parents job to make them antisocial? And given many parents these days, they seem to be achieving it very well.
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@sutty85 I only went to a Comprehensive/ Secondary modern school like my two younger sisters. I only came away with 4 O levels and 7 CSEs as they were then. My sisters did at least as well and we all ended up in reasonable jobs with two of us retiring quite early because we could. My two older siblings were more lucky in that they got in to grammar schools but in truth it gave them no real advantage. We were all council house born and bred and our parents were very working class. The difference between us and the kids who left school with next to nothing was how we were brought up (as well as all being pretty intelligent which is not something you can teach! ).
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@sanniepstein4835 Perhaps I am thinking of when I was at school and you had several teachers teaching different subjects. Each would have their own views on many things to the point that some did not really get on with the others. Having only your parents views on the world is likely to either make you a clone of their way of thinking or make you rebel as soon as you can. It is important however that the parents do a great deal of the early education right from the start and up to 4 or 5 - a good example being my niece and nephew who could both read quite well by 5! The problem with many of today's parents is that I would not trust them to train a labrador dog.
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