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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Ten total ... but actually only seven at home right now, because Anoreth lives in Seattle, Tom is lifeguarding at one Boy Scout camp, and Elen is Foresting at another. The place feels practically empty!
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I’m going to be 50 next month.
Stop paying Democrats to breed!
Give those with 3 kids a math test. If they score within the top 10% of the U.S. Give them IMMEDIATE citizenship, No moozlems without the approval of the Mossad.
That’s what we get for feeding all those foreigners all these years with foreign aid. Ah, well, no good deed goes unpunished. ;-)
The best predictor of social unrest is too many single young men with no responsibilities. Welfare produces that, as does the practice of reducing the number of females born in societies that prefer sons. China and India are like powder kegs waiting for a war to cull the herd of rootless males.
I laugh at the cliches in media about saving people from cancer, et cetera:
The elitists want the population reduced - drastically. They do not want to save us; they want us for the most part dead.
Great observation.
Guess we need another World War to thin their ranks out a bit, eh?
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