Posted on 06/21/2016 9:09:10 AM PDT by Lorianne
AT no point in recorded history has our world been so demographically lopsided, with old people concentrated in rich countries and the young in not-so-rich countries.
The parable of our time might well be: Mind your young, or they will trouble you in your old age.
A fourth of humanity is now young (ages 10 to 24). The vast majority live in the developing world, according to the United Nations Population Fund.
By and large, today’s global youth are more likely to be in school than their parents were; they are more connected to the world than any generation before them; and they are in turn more ambitious, which also makes them more prone to getting fed up with what their elders have to offer. Many are in no position to land a decent job at home. And millions are moving, from country to city, and to cities in faraway countries, where they are increasingly unwelcome.
“It is the big development challenge these countries face — more decent jobs,” he added.
Worldwide, young workers are in precarious straits. Two out of five are either not working or working in such ill-paid jobs that they can’t escape poverty, according to figures recently released by the International Labour Organization.
Youth unemployment is especially striking in richer countries. Across Europe, youth unemployment is 25 percent
That does not bode well. An increase in youth unemployment is a better predictor of social unrest than virtually any other factor, warned Raymond Torres, the Labour Organization’s research chief. “The social contract is weakened because of unfulfilled promises,” he said.
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“Too many young people” who don’t want to work, is more like it.
We have more children than adults in this house. Just saying.
“The World Has a Problem: Too Many Young People”
Actually. . .
“The World Has a Problem: Too Many Self-Important, Muslime, Wanna-be-Rappers-just-Turning-their-Life-Around Yutes”
That means you have a future Megan (Hugs)
Once the kids outnumber the paris, .... chaos
The internet has made too many kids think that fame an fortune is only a derivative YouTube video away.
Many of the big names on that website are having to spend hours a day fighting people just looking to destroy them personally and publicly just because they want their chance at the easy spotlight.
Why work when you can go to war?
The progressives seem to think that curing all those childhood diseases was a mistake.
Nature used to balance things out. But progressives got involved.and screwed everything up.
The Social Contract. I loathe that term. The only contract I have is with my Savior. The rest of the world’s contracts are mere chits, confetti, if you will.
Only part of the problem. More correctly: "Too many young people who believe in a free lunch."
The Social Contract. I loathe that term. The only contract I have is with my Savior. The rest of the world’s contracts are mere chits, confetti, if you will.
Without Virtue, there is no freedom possible and no civl society.
All the 3rd world “youth” and our indoctrination system (Common Core) are destroying Common Sense, flipping Reality (Truth), and destroying Virtue formation in children on purpose.
The psychopathic elites are making all our publik skooled children radicalized and psychologically warped to destroy civil society for “happy slavery” of the elite sodomite (satanic) “masters”, who wrote Common Core, NCLB, Goals 2000 and all the curricula since the communist John Dewey (Kill Christianity group took control of “edukation”) want to recreate the Socialism of pagan/Spartan/islamic cultures (masses totally controlled by few elites, and told what to “think”. No Age of Reason, no ability of critical thinking, no Common Sense, no Individual Natural Rights from God (only from the masters)-—emotions (barbarianism) controls intellect. Feelings dictate “law” LOL. Truth/Reality/concept of Mother/Father BANNED since it develops individuality (identity apart from groups).
As Socrates noted, Education is to promote Virtue only (we ejected Classical Education in 1930 to produce indoctrinated drones. Without Virtue embedded in the young, you can NEVER have a civil society-—Freedom or Justice will never exist.
LOL!!!
So the problem fixes itself in 20 or 30 years. What’s the big deal?
Can’t even perceive what it will be like when the kids outnumber the Shanghai.... :)
“We have more children than adults in this house. Just saying.”
TC, meet Megan. Megan, meet TC.
So, after about 50 years, the ole Population Zero raises its ugly head again.
Libs just recycle the same old crap after a few generations.
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