(Good News?) America is looking down the barrel of population collapse

Brad · January 07, 2022, 12:01:41 AM

>China and Japan

Read something a few years back that Russia might be there too.

Rupert · January 07, 2022, 04:59:05 PM

QuoteListing to an interesting discussion on BBC sounds. Rethink:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08gt1ry

The one I am half way through is about populations, and how China and Japan in particular are approaching a population shrink.

didn't realise I was part way through a 5 episode series. Really good. Heard the last 2 and the first one now.

Starts with Musk claiming that in 20 years we can expect to be looking at worldwide population COLLAPSE.

It then dissects it from there. Looking at the decisions women make, looking after the old, retirement, work life balance.

rcjordan · January 07, 2022, 07:21:47 PM

Bulgaria's vanishing act: Population dives by more than 11 percent over the past decade - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/07/bulgaria-population-decline/

ergophobe · January 07, 2022, 07:28:52 PM

>>Rethink

I just subscribed. I know you mentioned it before, but I didn't see that I could just subscribe to the audio podcast.

rcjordan · January 22, 2022, 02:13:22 PM

Looks like the pandemic just moved the coming labor shortage ahead by 5-10 years.

The hard math behind America's labor shortage - Axios
https://www.axios.com/labor-shortage-work-jobs-data-f925f6b3-0f59-4cda-8603-6cd77aa1288f.html

ergophobe · January 28, 2022, 03:54:12 AM

But what if people EAT their pets? Wouldn't that be okay? HHH

rcjordan · May 05, 2023, 07:17:48 PM

Another problem:

The average cost of giving birth in the US

https://triad-city-beat.com/the-average-cost-of-giving-birth-in-the-us/

DrCool · May 08, 2023, 08:36:55 PM

>>average cost of giving birth in the US

When we were having our kids we went with some standalone midwife clinics instead of going the hospital route. The delivery including all the pre and post natal care was I believe $2000-3000 flat fee out of pocket outside of the insurance system. Worked out great in our situation and to this day I am baffled why insurance companies aren't singing the praises of services like this that would save them many, many millions of dollars a year.