The replacement rate is down to 1.56, meaning every couple is having, on average, 1.56 children in the United States. We need two or above to keep the population at the same amount.
There’s actually another way to keep the population up, and it’s great for America economically and culturally, and it makes the world a better place at the same time.
I get that this is how politics works, that a certain amount of disassociation is part of the package, but holy shit how ghoulish is this.
If in the course of my job I inadvertently or intentionally caused the deaths of hundreds of schoolchildren, I’d like to think I wouldn’t then complain about the possibility of losing that job.
Imagine having so little regard for human life. I know there are a disproportionate number of sociopaths in government, but they can’t all be sociopaths, right? Some of them must just be racists, and some of them must be able to delude themselves that much, but still. What the fuck.
Did you not understand that I was talking about immigration? Which is one of the ways we solve that. All of that.
Besides which we’re actually talking about keeping the population stable. A declining population is bad for everyone economically. Luckily population growth naturally slows down in modernized societies, which is why allowing people to immigrate is good for everyone.