Comments by "Rune of Svalbard" (@vladimirofsvalbard9477) on "Tom Nicholas" channel.

  1. Economics are barely the reason for having kids. Values and over-all health are why the birth-rate is plummeting. Imagine destroying everyone's body with carcinogens and convincing women to pursue a corporate career into their 30s, by which that time they largely become infertile.
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  2. Pretty nihilistic if you ask me. What bothers me the most is not people's ideologies these days. It's that they can get a 'gotcha moment' before they leave this world. What are we becoming as a species?
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  3. The title of this video is gaslighting. They use one example as a means to represent everyone? What I find funny is that this topic has been in the news for at least a decade. Yet somehow it's a conservative obsession now?
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  4. Well, not exactly. A Keynesian economy needs population growth, because it's based on permanent inflation and permanent growth in productivity. This isn't really to support a rich oligarchy, but just to baseline support existing demographics. If population declines, then Social Security, Medicare, and all your social services implode.
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  5. Not sure how this is a conservative thing all by itself. Low-birth rates have been an issue for over a decade my virtually all types of media pundits. I think this guy is pushing division where there is none.
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  6. I think that the video title is a bit disingenuous. I'm not sure how this is solely a conservative talking point. Most institutions have been airing this narrative for the last decade at least.
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  7. Well, it's a massive problem because the current economy cannot be sustained with a shrinking population. The world generally revolves around a Keynesian growth economy; permanent inflation and permanent growth. As ridiculous as that sounds; it's the model. Most of what you have these days wouldn't function with decreasing populations. Social Security would implode and safety nets are not sustainable under any other standard. So naturally, we would have to go back to a regional/local civilization and tribalism will be inevitable. An Empire and all it's resources depend on growth or else you just get a bunch of competing groups where some will grow and others shrink.
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  8. OR, perhaps mismanagement is the leading cause of the unsustainability? You have massive bureaucracies that do nothing to help soil regeneration or anything else that's sustainable. I don't see any actual logical argument for why it's over-populated. 1B could be over-populated for all we understand. Btw, don't let grifters turn this into a left vs. right thing. Low-birth rates have been a concern for decades. This video pretends like conservatives somehow are obsessed with it now. Btw, fossil fuels are necessary for the current demographics. Many people want to slowly transition; instead of rapidly switch from one energy to another. This is because a rapid switch would cause tens of millions of deaths.
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