Helloooooo!!! "Supporting an aging population" isn't a reason people should be having babies. Human society isn't supposed to be a pyramid scheme. The aged population should have worked hard and made large contributions to their society's physical and intellectual capital, sufficient to support themselves in their old age, and preferably with surplus to enhance the lives of the younger generations as well.
The first full generation of Germans to spend their lives as wards of a socialist welfare state are now hitting what they imagine should be retirement-at-leisure age. It takes some serious audacity for them (and others purporting to speak on their behalf) to complain that the cash-strapped, tax-crushed current generation of young adults is failing to do their patriotic duty of making enough babies to support the elderly. The current elderly generation is the one that allowed the pyramid scheme of socialism to take hold in the first place, and they sure aren't offering to give up their mountain of government-guaranteed old age benefits so that the younger generation can afford to have more children.
“Helloooooo!!! “Supporting an aging population” isn’t a reason people should be having babies. Human society isn’t supposed to be a pyramid scheme. The aged population should have worked hard and made large contributions to their society’s physical and intellectual capital, sufficient to support themselves in their old age, and preferably with surplus to enhance the lives of the younger generations as well.”
That is a modern/western perspective, but families were stronger when the younger did help care for the older.
They are only worried about not enough kids to pay off banksters debts. Much like the Kaiser used to worry about having enough males to kill off on battle fields for what ever elitist notions he had. Humans as resource digits. Integers. Statistics.
Yeah, my American Grandpa had the same problem. For some reason, he thought he was entitled to my earnings.