Comments by "Roger Smith" (@rogersmith8339) on "Why Birth Rates are Declining Everywhere" video.

@MegaDixen Sounds like a very good idea. Just imagine living in a England with a population density lower than France - low house prices, plenty of space for everyone, quieter roads, you name it, it would be amazing. Pity I will never see it in my lifetime.
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In the 60s people were still having 4 or 5 kids (I am one of 5). Then we went through a period of people being encouraged to have more kids due to child benefit payments etc. which resulted in some very large families for poor people.
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@joshuakhaos4451 But what problem is there with a decreasing population? In these times when you don't need a huge workforce in any country due to technology you will only end up with lots of very poorly paid or unemployed people. Just think, 20 years ago it took dozens of men to build a car, now it is virtually all automated. Go back to the 30s and a reasonable sized farm would employ 20 or 30 people. Nowadays 3 or 4 people can do all the work.
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@dilpickles5928 Basically it is evolution and nature sorting itself out.
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@noelienoelie8425 Really rich people and in fact anyone in a bigger business rely on poorer people to work for them and to buy their products to keep them rich.
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@wyleecoyotee4252 Nobody does as the social pressures to be just another sheep keeping the flock growing are no longer there.
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@mogznwaz Nothing wrong with being a perpetual teenager, it has worked fine for me. As you get older it is not the latest "toy" (in the traditional sense, like a computer game) that you can buy but a big yacht or motorhome and big boys toys for your hobbies.
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@dantesparda7719 It certainly won't be good for the wealthy who rely on ever increasing numbers of poor people for cheap labour to keep them in the style they feel they deserve and it won't be for those who make obscene profits from housing (building or renting).
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@rabidsminions2079 With technology there will be much less need for a large workforce and early indications show that the aging population will start to decline as later generations will not be living so long for various reasons.
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@TonyZmex What "they" are you on about? Big businesses rely on increasing population to sell more products and make more money.
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@dantesparda7719 Even weirder comment? Why have so many people fallen for the myth that a smaller population is a bad thing when it can only be a good thing for everyone. Less poverty in the world, less unemployment, you name it, it can only be a good thing. With the ever decreasing need for a large workforce due to automation etc it is what the world needs.
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@RRHandle When I think back to when the UK population was around 50 million and how nice the country was you can clearly see that there just isn't the space for 70 plus million and you understand all the problems that is causing.
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@thathandsomedevil0828 Being replaced by who and why?
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@nosirrahx You really do have a very strange outlook on life! What on earth would be the point of what you are saying - makes absolutely no sense. By the way, who are this "they / them" that you are so worried about?
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 @tangoalpha1905 WTF are you on?
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@shadowpriest2574 And you know how backwards countries where that is the case are!
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@shadowpriest2574 For a start, it is you who seems to want rules & limitations in place. As for only wanting to change things if they benefit you then that applies to nearly everyone to a degree - even changing who can vote like you want to will benefit you.
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@dantesparda7719 OK, if you seriously think it is not good, please explain in detail and not emotionally why it is not a good thing or better still why it is a bad thing.
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@stefanisilva2493 I have been driven through parts of Rio and to European eyes it seems terrible, mind you parts of Portugal are not a lot better with at least one large squatter camp I know of not far from Lisbon.
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@shadowpriest2574 It wasn't long ago in the UK that very many men did not have the right to vote, in fact right up until just before women got it. As for work, it was never a "right" for men but a necessity or even compulsory.
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Clamidia and gross obesity are big contributors to infertility, it is natures way of controlling population as there are currently way too many people on the planet. Just look how our countryside is being dug up for new houses and how house prices are going through the roof.
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@wyleecoyotee4252 In fact it is almost the opposite to a problem.
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@АндрейНеугодников-м6е That is what I was thinking.
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@Tommysimonsen I did look up the Frankfurt School and it sounds quite an interesting topic.
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It is what happens when people become more educated and better off. That why the chavs are still breeding like rabbits.
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@akiramiller9025 They still get married at that age in parts of the USA- lol.
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@AmazingStoryDewd It is simple evolution, animals with a low survival rate of offspring have large numbers whereas those with a high survival rate only have one or two.
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@shadowpriest2574 When you are old enough you can vote unless the system changes (unless I have mistaken your being an animal and not a child).
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@MrHkl8324 But that has come about for very many reasons with the large female workforce in WW1 being a major driver. Anyway, so what if birth rates are falling, it will only benefit ordinary and poorer people as their skills and labour will be in more demand and hence command higher rates of pay.
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@GIwillo Are you saying it has or has not? It certainly has not kept up the way it used to when most people were not that far from most of the things they needed on a day to day basis.
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@Yea_I_Got_Nothing More paranoid ramblings from a commie.
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@seabreeze4559 Now that one is totally off the wall!
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@akiramiller9025 He sounds like some real nut job to me!
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@MegaDixen Much longer than that!
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@tangoalpha1905 More ranting from a nutter! Did your mummy not show you enough love when you were little?
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@tangoalpha1905 I am on a roll picking holes in the arguments of idiots!
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@shadowpriest2574 Even that is part of evolution, just as most men have many more rights than they did 200 or 300 years ago.
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@lifemocker85 The spelling of the word for sevearal female sheep is "ewes" but I cannot see how that can solve any problem.
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@shadowpriest2574 On a more serious not than my last comment, perhaps the voting age needs to be raised to say 25 and only if you are in full time employment with no criminal record.
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@malakatan3235 I would suggest maybe the opposite as capitalism is market driven and relies on cheap labour to produce goods and with less people the market is smaller and there are less workers.
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@MidlifeCrisisJoe Were you hoping to kiss a frog so it turned into a handsome prince? With a name like Joe, presumably you are a guy so maybe you will be in luck?
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@tangoalpha1905 And what planet are you from? Perhaps 6 year old kids should campaign for the right to be sent up chimnies and down mines again?
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