If Demographics Are Destiny... We're Screwed!

The Burning Platform ^ | 11/17/2025 | Jim Quinn

[SeekAndFind]

RE: America doesn’t need 400 million people. It doesn’t need 300 million people.

The issue is more complicated than that— the average age of the develop country’s population is AGING, and with that AGED CARE becomes an important factor in society. Like it or not, as the population ages, health conditions associated with aging affects a significant portion of the population.

If we do not have enough young people to take care of our aged as their health deteriorates, we’ll have to either consider using technology ( AI and Robots ) to do the job, import younger care givers from country with surplus population, or in the most amoral case ( as they’re already doing in Canada for instance), develop ways to make them die comfortably before their time ( this also means you and me eventually ).

And not only that, as the population ages, assuming they’re even healthy, they’re all mostly retired, and depending on pensions and social security for living. Unfortunately, our system is such that the retired are dependent on the currently working to prop up the system. If we do not have enough able bodied WORKING younger folks to help carry this system, then yes, the country will eventually be screwed.

We need a growing productive population to replenish and replace those who will pass on, that’s the bottom line.

[Salvavida]

Whatever. It’s a great day to share the gospel with someone.

[Red6]

That’s why I say (sarc):

“I have a dog”: I don’t need children that get in the way of sex, career, vacation, mess up my figure, cost money, are a pain in the rear, and cause me to get committed to this nuiscense for the next 18 years.

But the real problem is that in our culture today, we advertise that mentality: Friends, Sex and the City...

No doubt she’s a beauty at 56, but she’s a perfect example:
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We socially and economically reward this way of thinking.

Those with children are basically paying for the retirement and welfare of those that have few or no children.

You can’t eat money.

If you had a mountain of 20 trillion dollars behind your house, but were the last human alive, what value other than tinder to start a fire with would that money have to you?

Money is no more than an abstract concept representing human time.

Those without children will one day be fed, housed, clothed, rolled down the hall in a wheelchair by the children of others.

But in the meantime, those with children get a $500 (that’s what it was last I checked) tax deduction. Hahahaha

[blitz128]

All true, my point is how many people do we need in today’s society, farms take less labor, automation requires less labor to make widgets.

Hell was in the airport a few months back and there was a full automated pizza kiosk

Right now there is a “glut” of elderly, that won’t be the case in a few decades.

Much of our “demographics” right now contribute zero and are in fact net negatives and feral