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Europe needs many more babies to avert a population disaster
Across Europe birth rates are tumbling. The net effect is a ‘perfect demographic storm’ that will imperil economic growth across the continent. Wait a bit, aren't there lots of people who are desperate to migrate?
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The Portuguese PM is very funny. He says that this should be a priority but he is destroying public schools and health system.
The last few governments have removed every single support to natality to everyone except the very poor (which don't have money to have kids even with state support), the current one decided to defund the education and health system so the middle class has no hope whatsoever to provide a decent live to their children and they act surprised that people don't want to have kids. To help it make it a perfect storm the government (and the troika) decided that a low wage and high taxes policy is the way for Portugal to rebound so anyone that hopes to be something more than a slave (including me) have left.
That’s how it works. I don't know what they were expecting to happen.
And this is seen as a bad thing? There are already way too many humans in my way of thinking. And in many country s the rug is being yanked out from under them.
It's so weird to see this snap appear. What happened to all the talk of overpopulation? Are we just concentrating in certain areas?
Can we just ship babies from one place to another???