We don’t want to live in poverty and be wage slaves to the elites.

The wolves are upset the Sheep won’t Reproduce

Who cares about "the global economy"? What matters is the wellbeing of people, not some abstract bogeyman.

I'm not going to pop out kids "for the economy." They can get bent.

Time, people need time to raise children. The 9 to 5 is the problem.

Live standards rise when population falls gradually, so I am not worried.

childfree and got my hysterectomy in 2023 you won't use my babies as cheap labor😙

One word, Corporatism

The population boom was an anomaly. The economy will adjust either way and it's about quality over quantity.

Unemployment, low wages and job uncertainty is biggest reason, people are afraid of having children......

omg, no more wage slaves, elites panicking 🤣🤣

To all the men who talk about the importance of having more than 2 children, try asking their wives how hard it is to be pregnant for 9 months, and how hard it is to take care of children from the time they are born until they get married.

Mothers are penniless. If a woman can be divorced against her will on no grounds at all, putting her into the poverty and increased labour of single parenthood, motherhood is untenable.

Life is a major scam. The biggest one there is.

IDK I still feel like the environmentalists are right. Sure, birth rates are trending down, but eight billion is still way too many humans.

People were better off when population was 2 billion.

The Black Plaque took out a huge amount of people in a short time...yet here we are

People will look back and see this as a positive. Im from India and I want to see the birth rate drop even further.

Why no discussion of the environmental factors affecting declining fertility rates by the panel? This is a shocking oversight. The onslaught of exposure to chemicals affecting hormones, which determine sperm quality and count in men and fertility in women, will be a major driver in this process as we go forward in this century.

I'm in my forties, and a low birth rate means less people who could potentially replace me at work. Companies will treat me well and I won't be facing unemployment. On the other hand, I live in a country with public health care, therefore one day I'll need young workers to pay my pension. My point is, most of the immigrants who are coming here are uneducated and don't have the skills necessary to do my job. And my country is not rich enough to attract skilled people from a abroad. I'm being cynical on purpose, just to think about this matter.

If the meteor won't come, we might as well help our disappearance along.

If the developed countries want more babies they will have structure their economies around the people who have them, mainly women between the ages of 18 to 36.

In Africa theres not enough jobs to go around... Not enough schools. Alot of familys are single parent families so women have to have jobs or starve with their kids. The unemployment in South Africa is 60% its a biiiig problem.

Reproduction makes sense only when you are attractive or rich, then your kids will be too. Otherwise it is cruelty.

I want everyone to look at the impact of the black plague on the workforce, it ended up well for the workers. We have a golden opportunity

A shrinking population will result in much lower housing costs and more job opportunities

People have lives to live, and not all want to deal with taking on an 18 year inconvenient, often annoying gaol sentence. I got fixed at 19 because I didn't need that pointless garbage in my life. I also like my higher standard of living.

Indian fertility rate decreased

Yes especially the western countries, abortion, LGBTQ, contraceptives, sexualization of women

Omg, consumerism will suffer 😢

Propaganda. Population is still growing. It's just not growing as fast as it was.

World's population is predicted to peak at approx 9.5 billion in 2050 .. and will then drop precipitously by over 50% by 2100 with 50% of the population over the age of 60.

Our leaders are clueless. Demography is part of any economy. LOL. ❤❤

"The meek shall inherit the Earth"

You're an evil person if you choose to bring kids to our chaotic world full of hardships.

All Unemployed people Boycott Marriage, Never Marry…!

Again, it's the wolves telling the sheep to having more lambs.

Well, the lady brings up AI into the picture. As an America having fled the country almost 6 years ago, this is what I'm afraid of: AI and its Impact on Society Oct 31, 2023, updated on April 11, 2024 We must ask ourselves, "What will happen when AI has taken 85% of jobs present in 2020? What will we do? How will we eat and survive without incomes from jobs or other means?" What is disturbing is that while AI is taking these jobs, the gov't and the corporations have not done ANYTHING to prepare us for an AI'ed civilization. They have not said anything about major retraining of an entire economy to something else, and they have not followed up on a discussion of universal basic income. This is supposedly supported by a lack of information in the latest government budgets submitted and approved as reported by some UKposts videos. It appears that the US gov't and the corporations intend to kill off the majority of Americans passively, through starvation from lack of income to buy food. (check and see if farming production is declining or will start to decline ahead of the "starvation phase") (also check to see if the "makeup" of robot equipment allocation would change to reflect a trend away from retail and services for the masses, possibly indicating an extinction of the American public - this means taking a robot from Chipotle and repurposing it for some other job not related to the public, or scrapping affected robots to be remade for some other purpose that has nothing to do with the public) It appears that the decline of farming has already started with the state of Maine buying farm land under the pretext that there are "forever chemicals" present at around 20 parts per TRILLION (safe level is said to be only 4 parts per TRILLION), which does not make sense, BUT this would rope in a LOT of land across the US. Other states may follow suit in addition to the ten states that have similar laws in place. This way, there are only enough people alive to get some things done, and the rest is done by AI, and the survivors who planned this can claim the whole country for themselves. Imagine having an estate mansion half the size of a mall on several dozen thousand acres of land, and robots would be used to maintain and clean the estates and do the farming FOR THE ESTATE OWNERS. The White Man's wet dream of civilization. What will the Native Americans south of the US border do when they see this coming, especially when they can buy firearms legally now? Hopi prophecy...

Needs to shrink faster.

Since WWII, the world's population has tripled. Our earth has never had so many humans living so well. 'Living well' gobbles up the earth's resources at an unprecedented rate and our earth is not coping with our consumption and waste. Earth can provide a high living standard for a small population, or poverty for a large population.

I see a world with only one billion people as a paradise. The only problem is the economics and elderly care issues along the way.

Yes in 123 years from now

A lot of people are focussing on the overall population who think that it is only the total number being too high which is the problem. Yes, a large total population does put a strain on the environment through greater consumption. However, the biggest problem in the near future is that the age ratios in many of these countries will get misaligned. Many countries around the world will reach a situation where the number of retirees is not supported by a large enough number of workers. In most developed countries the largest portion of government expenditure goes towards helping to pay for retirement pensions and to pay for medical systems which are disproportionately used by the elderly. As the numbers of elderly increases relative to the number of workers/tax payers the economic strain on the workers increases. Governments will need to both raise taxes on those working while also raising the retirement age and cutting expenditure on the elderly in some way. It is also possible that the coming AI and robotic revolution will reduce some of the strain by making a lot of labour infinitely cheaper. The future will be interesting.

This poor planet’s population needs to shrink. Starting with the cultures remaining whos people overpopulate and can’t take care of themselves. Unfortunately, the more aid they get, the more kids they have.

Wont somebody think of the gLoBAl ecOnOmY

Housing cost is far too high in the Nordic countries

The human population is only in decline here in the western world and in some parts of Asia such as China, Korea, and Japan as for the African continent that’s a different story because from what I’m seeing the human population in Africa is rising and growing.

Not in philippines or Africa Kids everywhere

I feel bad for young people today, who choose not to have children. Old age is going to be lonely.

IF you reduced taxation and stopped social programs that require that taxation it would help a lot. Stop taxing consumption.

A very one sided discussion focused on economy/power. Reality is that eternal population growth is not sustainable, we already use resources well beyond the reproductive capacity of earth. This has to go down, this can only be achieved by increased efficiency and/or declining population. Economic growth, though maybe needed to give decent living standards to the poor, only adds to the environmental problems. Redistribution of wealth may very well be a much better solution for that. With respect to economic growth, we should also have the discussion about how much is enough. Eternal growth in a limited world is not possible. With fewer people we can have higher living standards, so look at gdp/capita instead of gdp. AI creates the possibility that a lot of tasks can be fully automated, and consequently explode gpd/worker. Declining population isn't a big deal for the economy in such a world. I also miss futures prospects in the considerations to take kids, you just talk economics. From what I hear, not necessarily representative, most young people forego kids because they are fed all kinds of doom scenarios and feel they don't want to put kids in the world to live through the apocalypse.

The only people I know having kids are the more well off members of my friend group. Those who own their houses and have financial stability. The rest of us are opting out of bringing children into poverty.

People are having fewer children primarily due to urbanization. Once you live in a town/city, it doesn’t feel like you “need“ children. Your life will be more or less the same, whether you have children or not. It’s basically a free-rider problem as it’s in everybody’s interest that somebody has kids, but it’s very expensive to be the one having them. I would be in favor of much greater government subsidy to families with children, paid for by slightly higher taxes on people without children. Theoretically, that should have an “evening out” effect where having kids will not be as expensive as not having them.

Education, health,highcost of living, unemployment is also one of reasons to decrease population in India.

We have technology to share a lot of knowledge now. Even if you live in a poor country, maybe 1 out of every 15 people has a smartphone and can share a video with their neighbors and siblings and friends, about a woman in the West who is happy and child free. This inspires those girls to go to school and stay away from mean boys and creepy old men.

long term this isn't really a bad thing, the problem is the period where this transition finally ends, people that lives through it will definitely suffer economically and even socially tbh, especially if the country they live in choose to not bring in a lot of immigrants to "close the gap"

That's for good. Antinatalism is the future.

The 400 yrs r up.

Good debate

For the good life that we see ideal in the developed world, earth can only support ~50 million people living that lifestyle without ushering in swift consequences that will usher in a sharp drop in population and lots of adversity. We have exceeded that by magnitudes. The next century will be challenging if not outright traumatic. Last I checked, God doesn’t provide violation of the laws of physics. But his earth is infinitely powerful in taking care of itself for the sake of life’s continuation.

Two child policy following india.this is better to economics.

We live in the human version of the Universe 25: The Mouse "Utopia" - it a nightmare.

The Chinese have the best name for what the Oligarchs want more people for...harvesting.

Not global ,just the developed part .

Something new one ever ever thought of and the declining population is happening from first world nations like the United States all the way down to third world nations in sub-Sahar africa

Malthus was wrong.

Not declining, but changing. The West and East Asia are in decline. People from Islamic countries and Africa, are poised to become the new Europeans This will help replacing ageing populations in Europe and the rest of the developed world. Japan urgently needs mass immigration to support the elderly

Thank God 🙄

😮😮😮

Good.

Professional breeders are the solution. Particularly gifted adults could be offered a matching lifestyles and income equal to what they currently enjoy. Creative algorithmic Solutions to attract everyone equally without the specter of eugenics programs of the past.

In Germany all the women get PhDs and once they’ve left university it is hard for them to get pregnant and they have become vinegary of temperament.

When I finished my project in 2019 I was 46 then, I planned to have another child for our family, but no finance to support my family!..

Keep Korea Japan China and other countries and nations safe 🙏 ❤

Indians definitely not declining!!😡😡

This is a good thing. This is exactly what the WEF wants.

Throughout my life, I've consistently heard from feminists that I'm evil, oppressive, and worthless. I'm 37 now. All I've ever desired is to have a loving stay-at-home wife whom I could care for, provide for, and protect while she raises our children. Yet, society repeatedly tells me that I am the embodiment of societal wrongs. You may wonder why birth rates are declining? It's because I understand that in a divorce, I stand to lose everything. Every man I know who has experienced divorce has lost virtually all they possess. Ask me again why birth rates are declining. My income remains stagnant since 2009, while rent has skyrocketed by thousands. Ask me again why birth rates are declining. Every zoo worldwide has proven that animals under stress do not reproduce. Humans are no different.

I hope they do not take over other countries. It would be insane to see the cultural and ethnic identity of Europe and Japan suddenly be Indian and African. Well, maybe this is karma for Europe's colonial atrocities and enslavement.

A world where woman are seen as equivalent counterparts to men in the context of occupation is not an ideal setup if you want healthy family development and freedom from outrageous childcare costs. It doesn’t matter if it’s fair. There needs to be a spouse at home to care for the children.

We need protection of all humans life from moment of conception.

How do you slow population growth across any and all cultures without anyone even realising it? Empower women (even to the point of absurdity) but say it’s about “equality”. That’s what the Malthusian elites have set in motion since the 1960s. Many other measures too, but mainly that.

No one brought up faminism and social media as the leading cause of changing social norms Women today don't want to be like there mother They want freedom and career And Men don't have balls to say No

It's the population of productive people which is the issue; not the total population.

I appreciate the variety in your content.