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Originally Posted by GGG
In order for society to work there needs to be a generation of people to follow to buy your investments, run your power supply, run your hospital work at Mcdonalds. If everyone made the decision to not have kids the entire economy and society as a whole collapses. In the first world you could make up for this with immigration but a non-replacement population spells disaster for our economic system.
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I think if
everyone stops having kids, the economy probably won't be the biggest thing to worry about. You ever see that movie "Children Of Men"? Pretty grim stuff! Although that Clive Owen manages to remain very dreamy even in such dire circumstances.
ANYWAY, I do see a lot of doom and gloom about the Baby Boomers all hitting retirement in the near future, and what a disaster that is going to be for the economy.
Is anyone on this site old enough to remember if this same conversation was had on CP in the late 40's? Were the childless/child-free posters considered selfish in those days?