Raising kids is like manufacturing: 'richer' countries outsourced that and then 'import' grown adults. See current Canada immigration rates. https://www.cicnews.com/2024/06/canadas-population-grows-by-...
the straits chinese have the lowest fertility rate among all the major racial groups in singapore, and yet mysteriously the proportion has not changed in the last 10 years.
And they've now realised we dont have any housing for them!
Note: I'm pro Labour and pro Immigration :-)
> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/21/migra...
I don't think there is a good answer for it, from any perspective. Other than perhaps the honest "I don't know."
You are essentially draining other countries of its population to temporary plug in your hole.
Also a rapid migration from clashing culture backgrounds will introduce permanent cultural frictions and clashes into host country, all for a temporary increase of workforce.
The sub-replacement birth-rates is the biggest problem the majority of developed countries are facing now
Also rich countries are full of well educated people and academics, and those reproduce the least. Meanwhile poor countries with low education reproduce the most.
On a serious note, this is another prime example on why borders are stupid. Eventually you will perish within your own borders.
Embrace the bordersless future!
Might want to start with the free movement of people before you go abolishing borders of all kinds.
What is the point for saying that within this border we are a religion-A nation when we make no new kids who will be trained to follow that religion and we import adults of religion-B?
Same goes for every institutional value that a nation upholds and makes it different to the rest.
What are you gonna do? Assign a policeman and a jail for each person within your border?
The one thing that borders indeed do well is concentration of scarce resources. But again if you lose the majority of bodies who would die for this, then the border is worthless.
In which developed western country is that? And people can live in places even if they're not aligned with core values but because they get monetarily compensated well enough to make it a viable compromise. Money can be worth more than values when you don't have it, since you can't pay rent and food with cultural values but you can with USD.
Wait, in a borderless world are you proposing anarchy?
Also, the EU has a variety of values and laws that work with free movement.
To be clear, I don’t think a borderless world can work. But I’m open to being convinced it’s at least a distant possibility.
It just does not make sense to have laws in a jurisdiction that are not aligned with the views of the habitants. It's like passing an anti drug law in Medellin. Good luck enforcing it to the cartels of the neighborhood.