|
|
 Originally Posted by Penneywize
- If those of us living in 1st world nations decided to "do their part" to "stop the overpopulation of earth" by not having children of our own, we'd only be exacerbating the issue our own countries face, and ultimately do nothing to help the world as a whole. We need to have more children. We can't help developing nations if our own countries have populations with median ages of 50+ (going to happen by 2050 in Canada, maybe a little later in the United States, probably earlier in many European countreis) and over 1/3rd over the retirement age. We'd be incredibly unproductive and face the enormous social security costs / taxes that would be necessary to care for our elderly.
So this prompts the question... is social security something that should be eliminated, as it continues to cause those who pose less productive value to society to 'hang around'?
I wrote a whole lot more to this, as a follow up, but it made me sound pretty callous and cold, especially towards my own kin.
|
Reply With Quote