Under age 5.
Not kids.
They cherry picked a kids age to be dramatic.
The birth rate is over 1. For almost all countries and it’s almost 2 in the U.S.
Until recently in the US the fertility rate was almost 2 and we made it up with immigration. Now we’re trying to be isolationist and the fertility rate is no longer almost 2
1.6
Why not let more immigrants in then?
Oh that’s right. Racism.
The replacement rate is over 2, though.
People aged 65 and older now outnumber children aged 5 and younger worldwide for the first time in recorded history
Oh no, how we will we maintain value for our shareholders?!
I’m more concerned about people wanting to use that to raise the retirement age.
- They don’t understand averages. Reducing childhood deaths significantly raises average life expectancy by increasing the number of people who reach retirement ages, not by making them more able to work
- Nothing forces people to retire at a specific age. I’m more concerned about being able to work long enough to afford retiring. “Retirement age” is 67 and I don’t expect to be able to work that long
- Ageism is a thing. As I’m approaching 60, I understand I may never be able to get hired again in my field. This may be my last job, whether I want that or not, and regardless of what retirement age is
- There is no such thing as retirement age in the us. There is only the age range at which social security will start paying out. That has nothing to do with how old you need to keep working, how old you can keep working, or how old you’re allowed to keep working
I’m young still but well said. This is what my mom used to talk about but I still struggle to understand and implement. I’ll get there but sooner would be better.
It’s okay. Now that AI can do all the jobs the population crisis is over.
Now everybody get dying!
The graph states it happened in 2023… is this news at all?
Sometimes it takes a while for statisticians to notice things, I guess.
Cioran vindicated. Ligotti - We are all uncanny things. May we all march gracefully out.
oh im sure if they make things shittier plenty of folks will get on the. oh lets have kids bandwagon.
Seems like the approach we’re trying is to prevent people from not having kids they can’t care for, and prevent underage people from having the knowledge or medical support to not have kids when they are still kids
So… By the time the kids outnumber the boomers theyll be in the same age group as the people they criticize? Noice.
