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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]… is it morally/ethically right to push more social programs? Are babies born just to generate taxes for social programs that they may never live to qualify for?

As a society, we need to support each other / work together but is there a different model that can work so that babies are not just Oompa Loompas for the government?

Do politicians look at policies in terms of how many workers we have and how many workers we need to support every social policy?[/quote]

Declining birth rates are the result of higher standards of living and higher human capital investment requirements.

Declining birthrates are not a problem is the increases in productivity outpace the decline in population.

If the next generation can do twice as much with half as many people, then we we would get twice as much with half as many people.

Think of how much better our kids are at math than we were.  How much better at programming, engineering, etc.  Sure there are the ebureats driversbut for the most part our kids will be far more productive than we are and that will support us into our retirement.[/quote]

Declining birthrates are a problem (after a certain level) because humans will go extinct. [/quote]

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