The World Population Crisis NO ONE Sees Coming

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Maybe we need a system that doesn't rely on growth.

As a 22 year old Canadian guy the main thing holding me back from having kids is housing. I was raised by a single parent and lived in probably 12 different apartments/houses throughout my childhood. I just want a house but the cheapest houses within an hour from me are like half a million for old shitboxes😂

As a 30 year old millennial I've just accepted that I'm most likely not going to have any form of retirement and if I don't figure out a major vein of revenue or whatever I'll probably just end up in a ditch somewhere by the time I'm elderly if I get that far.

I have three grown kids. None of them have kids. None of their friends have kids. Very few of my friends have grandkids.

When young people are struggling to settle, e.g. buying an apartment and social security is scarce, it's no wonder that having children is not on the priority list.

Nobody ever seems to talk about changing the current system. All we care about is bringing in more indentured servants into this world.

My wife works in end of life care and she has been talking me how people are not living as long as they used to. Cancer, heart disease, or strokes are taking people younger and younger. It would seem peak life expectancy is behind us as we are exposed to more and more chemicals, electrical frequency’s and poor quality food.

I live in an area of low population, I’m 57 years old and am dreading getting old, this is because there are more retired people where I live than young or working age people, the problem this brings is there are not enough people to carry out the fundamental functions for a healthy society. I’m an electrician and have been well aware for many years that there is a severe shortage of electricians in my area this means that I am working harder now than I was twenty years ago and it’s just getting worse. Young people just keep leaving the area to go live in the city, I can foresee the area I live in becoming a pristine wilderness in the future.

'We're living in a golden age of mental health'. I don't think I've heard anything so at odds with reality. We are actually living in a well documented mental health crisis of epidemic proportions.

The main problem with increasing the retirement age is not riots like in France, it’s the fact that living longer doesn’t mean being longer fit and healthy enough to deliver productivity on a competitive level. In my country, retirement age was increased to 67, but barely half of the people above 60 actually get a job. You have ever seen a 65 old grandma almost dying while pulling a pallet truck at snail speed, then you understand why increasing the retirement age doesn’t solve workforce scarcity.

Detroit had a population of about two million in the 60’s. Now it is at about 600,000 if I remember correctly, but it still takes up the same space. It’s difficult to make a city work when its population density more than halves. It needs, for example, the same number of roads a fire stations but with less than half the people to pay for it. Edit: oops, I posted this before I got to the Detroit part of the video.

“They burnt Paris to the ground”. Citation needed.

Here’s a huge problem: People used to be able to pass on their gains to their children. Now, their kids have to use every last asset to pay for long term care. It’s evil what that industry has become; overpriced death factories.

I don't remember where I saw it, but I think the problem is pretty neatly summed up by "plants are the new pets, pets are the new children, and children are a pipe dream" in terms of how much just living costs. I don't think social media is why kids aren't dating. I think having to work wage-slave jobs and use every minute of time making money rather than connections is having a much harsher impact.

truly the world is a funny place, first a complaint about overpopulation and now it's a complaint about population decline

Why would i willingly bring a child into a world where they'll have to work till their grave

As a swede, we already have many of the benefits for having children (such as paid maternity/paternity leave), but we still have this same problem with a birth rate that is dropping. So it is not as easy as implementing a few policies to reverse this trend.

I’d riot too. It’s not “just 2 years.” By the time you reach your 60s, you’re tired, your body can’t do what it used to, & you’re much more likely to get a debilitating chronic disease or illness. So, there’s not much time left to enjoy the “golden years.” It’s more like, give the majority of your life to work, and then you can’t do all the things you’d dreamed about.. & then, you’re dead.

Population collapse isnt a crisis at all. The fact that it could happen naturally without drastic measures is something we should rejoice at. The economic system can change to accommodate this or if not it can be replaced.