The World Population Crisis NO ONE Sees Coming
By Two Bit da Vinci
We have all lived in a world where populations have been exploding, and for good reason. Between advancements in technology and engineering, we’ve gotten really good at sustaining human life on our precious planet. But we’re living in unprecedented times, and we might be looking at the height of human population before a collapse. In my research for this video, I uncovered some startling data, and we need to talk about this. Let’s figure this out together!
Here’s what others had to say:
@TheDeej26
Maybe we need a system that doesn’t rely on growth.
@peterp5099
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.
@ivoted-5489
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.
@YannMetalhead
I believe the explanation is simple: life today is insanely expensive and the future isn’t looking good. Who would have a kid in this scenario?
@dshepherd107
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.
@maclambert8841
Nobody ever seems to talk about changing the current system. All we care about is bringing in more indentured servants into this world.
@dominiclloyd6651
‘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.
@jonesreviews4613
I am 24 years old, the beginning of Gen z. I seriously do not see myself retiring. I will die at the job. It will take a miracle for me to have a child. Only one of my friends has a child and is struggling to feed his child with two incomes in the house even after working well over 50 hours a week and family support for child care. I don’t know how he’ll afford education when he can’t even afford a house. A lot of people my age don’t see a point in working for a future generation because they see it as throwing their lives away so their children can struggle as well. My financial goals are traveling and being able to afford a truck, i don’t know a single person my age with any hope of having children or owning a home.
@BobJoy_my_collection_of_stuff
I’m 72 and saw shortages of housing, seafood, fresh winter food, school placement, parking at good places to go. less people brings me back to my childhood, no waiting in line, licenses, or permits.
@MollyMiaow
Part of the affordability problem is changing expectations. Until 1930s and before, my grandmother’s era, children shared beds. She said it was fun having 3 or 4 to a bed. 1950s, my era, children shared rooms. Now kids have their own rooms and sometimes own bathrooms.
@HexerPsy
Here in Europe its prohibitly expensive to have more than 3 children. At 4 you need more rooms than the average house has, a van instead of a car… etc.
@Radhaun
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.
@arcticpilotshow4440
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.
@meyatetana2973
For how quickly universe just wipes shit out, no matter how many humans there are, it is always on the verge of extinction.
@hannahmore9118
A Japanese friend had to move back to take care of elderly mom until she passed, and stayed another year caring for father. She was an only child. There was no hospice care in her parents town. She had to close her business and leave her family to do this. She explained that there were NO other family members to do this. No aunts or uncles, neices or nephews. No one. She said many elderly people are dependant on the government for care, but only in the larger cities. Rural people are out of luck there.
And all three of my kids decline to marry and give me grandchildren. I worry who will take care of them if they remain alone and childless. I worked in hospice, no on should look forward to being popped in a nursing home. They tend to be horror shows(in my veiw) even in the better ones.
And some Chinese men kidnap North Korean women, selling them to desperate men wanting a wife and children. This is revealed in UN investigations and reports. There are a lot of consequences here.
@123moof
For my first and only kid I was only able to take 2 weeks off, and had to go back to work well before we were out of the crisis stage of sorting out what were normal feeding/sleeping/new-baby challenges. The two weeks were straight out of my vacation balance, with no specific paternity leave or support. So my first kid was my last. In the USA even decent professional jobs are very unsupportive of new parents. We chose to have my wife go SAHM, as after daycare and all it would have been barely better economically have her go back to work. We are reaping what we sowed.
@poopface011
I’m glad you identify and talk about the actual root of lower birth rates: childlessness. So many “experts” on this subject speculate on why families are getting smaller which isn’t even true.
@maksminimus3089
Automation has been supposed to reduce demand for workforce, so what’s the worries now about too few workers? Perhaps the problem is with company bosses/shareholders reaping in disproportionate amounts of profits – money which should be distributed across wide population, working or not (ie. replaced by automation, which is by design).
@jilldawson89
1. Belgium became the first country in Europe to legislate for a four-day week.
2. Netherlands. According to government data, at only 29 hours per week, Netherlands has one of the shortest average work weeks in the world. The country ends up having 4-Day work week.
@MrJoelkamins
People talk about population decline like it is a bad thing…. Do we really need more condos and strip malls?
@jstogdill
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.
@SC-zq6cu
As population falls cities will grow more and more vacant, but some cities will grow more crowded as the people from fallen cities rush there. This will mean more and more people won’t be able to live in those places. Where do they go now ? Farms. That’s the only place left. And with modern automation tech it will be easier to be a farmer than it was in older times. Farming will also keep your income to yourself thus making it more preferable. The only hurdle would be lack of experience which i think would be overcome by increasing desperation to find a place to go to. It would be like a reverse industrial revolution.
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Original source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk5KoWUwz6Q