The focus of state policy needs to be on making women feel like they are secure enough to have children. But isn’t that first, and foremost, the job of the men in their lives?
“A low-fertility future.”
Citing increase in life expectancy
Irish Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys, who is responsible for pensions, says she’s not aware of any plans the Irish government has to increase birthrates, despite the demographic timebomb threatening pensions long-term.
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These are the messy, unpleasant challenges of the 21st century, the consequences of longer lives and greater personal life choices.
If they fail, you will pay for it, not them.
Abuses of democratic procedure cannot be judged on their short-term results alone
Once you become a pensioner, it is, in effect, no longer your problem
There is no escaping sums. You can protest them, as the French are doing, and you can put them off for a while, maybe. But like Thanos, sums are inevitable.
Demographic crisis.
The problem here is that when you have no money for pensions, there are, basically, only three things you can do.
China is looking at a massive shift in its demographics over the next few decades as the fallout of the one child policy works its way through China’s economy and Chinese society.