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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Germany's response is to double down and try to cram in as many migrants as possible.

[url]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66003238[/url][/quote]

Why do all these articles about declining population always focus on creating policies to increase migration as the only solution?[/quote]

Because the other choices:

1. Reduced consumption

2. Boosting native childbirth

Are politically virtually impossible

1. Voluntary degrowth is fine on a personal level (I willingly do it — cycle/walk to the store vs car even though it takes longer or use cold showers daily even in the winter or never really use air conditioning) — but western people as a whole don’t want to accept this

2. Native childbirth boosting policy outside of israel is impossible — even right wing scholars like Lyman stone — concede the cost in public support to induce additional births is extremely high.

Israel makes it work because: 1. Jews are the chosen people

2. Per capita consumption in Israel is still way lower than the us — even most American Jews would struggle to shift their current consumption habits to fit Israeli levels

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The reality is that the Germans solved this issue already with their marriage loans system. In short the system gave a newlywed couple a subsidized loan for housing, and then a quarter of the loan was forgiven for each child that was born to the couple.

As for being "too expensive," it is amazing what governments can find money for and what they cannot. If it benefits the people, it is always too expensive. [/quote]

They didn't solve it though. They continue to have birth rates below the replacement rate, even with kindergeld, free kindergarten, etc.  Germans just don't want babies; they want to live child free and take holidays to Mallorca. [/quote]

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