neglectedselenium t1_ixd12yu wrote on November 22, 2022 at 3:04 PM

Reply to comment by LastInALongChain in ‘Without enough Latvians, we won’t be Latvia’: eastern Europe’s shrinking population | Latvia’s population is 30% smaller than it was in 1990 and by 2050 numbers will be in decline in over half of Europe’s 52 countries. by mossadnik

Empowering women is great, actually.

LastInALongChain t1_ixgez5k wrote on November 23, 2022 at 6:23 AM

Empowerment is fine, education is clearly crashing the birthrate. I don't hate women, I'm just explaining the actual, known factors that control the problem.

Too many people in these threads have a terrible understanding of reality, They all go "duh, things are bad so just add more good stuff like money and time and houses and we would have kids". Completely ignoring the reality that good things, like education and egalitarianism, can have bad long term effects if done sloppily and without awareness. Everybody just uses these threads to demand more free stuff for themselves, which is just gross and transparent and indicates they haven't done any research at all.

neglectedselenium t1_ixghmup wrote on November 23, 2022 at 6:56 AM

The only working solutions are to ease immigration for college educated people and start handing out working visas and allow anyone to serve in the US military, I guess

LastInALongChain t1_ixgj1tl wrote on November 23, 2022 at 7:14 AM

Or just repurpose college and high school. Increase the quality of education, and reduce the timeline to have everybody graduate at 16. Then just have a significant job training and placement program. Have college be a place for research and hyper-niche specialization, with an accelerated timeline of 2 years for any specific program. Avoid situations where people have spend 4 bachelors, 2 masters, 4 PhD years to get a job making powerpoints at 28.