Population Collapse Threatens Economy, Humanity's Existence | Melissa Kearney

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Publicado 2024-07-27
Melissa Kearney, Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, discusses the global trend of lower fertility rates, and its economic and societal impacts.

*This video was recorded on July 12, 2024

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0:00 - Intro
1:03 - Fertility rate trend
4:48 - Impact on economic growth
6:58 - Retirement age
10:00 - Malthusian prediction
12:11 - Fertility vs. per capita growth
14:00 - Fertility incentives
16:33 - Household formation
18:28 - Global fertility trends
20:05 - Marriage and income
24:55 - Media influence
27:15 - AI and innovation
31:06 - Happiness vs. fertility rate
34:00 - Divorce vs. income
35:40 - Sectors affected
37:00 - Solutions to shrinking population
39:30 - Immigration
40:55 - Two-parent privilege

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Todos los comentarios (21)
  • Why would a guy get married and/or have a kid with a woman when the financial deck is stacked against him if the relationship goes sideways?
  • Women have been told to have their fun, climb the corporate ladder, be a boss babe, then maybe have a kid at 45. Can’t have it all ladies
  • @egeemaru7289
    Give rich people and corporations more tax cuts, that will fix everything.
  • Her solution is to kick the can on to the next generation or to benefit herself with cheaper labor.
  • This is a dystopian title if I ever heard one. "The population collapse threatens the economy." Maybe the problem is the economy and the outright destruction we base it on. We need a new paradigm or we won't survive.
  • I just ordered my Kim Kardashian robot and I'm busy planning our wedding and honeymoon in Hawaii. 😂
  • What they're not talking about is getting rid of the retirees... Oh wait there was that thing a few years back.
  • Wages have been stagnant for 50 years in inflation adjusted terms. Jobs wants 24/7 availability for $20 an hour. Both parents have to work full time to afford a decent life. Childcare costs are insane.Average kid costs 300k to raise and fund college. Divorce rate 50% if not higher and one or both people get financially destroyed. It’s all based around the financial situation our country is in. Yeah sounds good, sign me up.
  • Left-over single women shall spend their waining days with their cats.
  • If you are not in the financial market space right now, you are making a huge mistake. I understand that it could be due to ignorance, but if you want to make your money work for you.... prevent inflation
  • Because nobody can afford having kids & even the people having kids probably don't have the patience/resources to properly raise them.
  • Mom of five here! We make HUGE financial sacrifices to raise our children well and actually put in the parenting needed to develop real humans. If more of us did this, so much would change for the better. Everyone seems to serve money today. So we keep getting more and more enslaved to it. Children are a fundamental condition of humanity. Wake up and take responsibility!
  • To feed the debt based monetary system, you need more people in order to create more debt. A decreasing or stagnating population is a huuugggge problem for a debt-based system.
  • @raidanbolt4844
    Increasing legal immigration in a way is a selfish solution. That practice tends to "steal" the better talent from poorer countries rather than having them improve their home country.
  • the world population is over 8 billion and will keep climbing for decades at least. We need less people breeding.. there are too many that already need adopted, fed, sheltered, loved.
  • Relying on population growth to fuel economic growth is flawed. At some point, resources will be depleted & pollution/waste will become unmanageable. Furthermore, we shouldn't be living in a world where economic growth is necessary for survival. Household & governments should be operating within their budgetary means & be able to endure weak economic conditions. Obviously, this is nowhere near the case. We live in a global bubble.
  • Short answer: no Long answer: economic systems based on unlimited growth will become extinct