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What crisis? Why is growth better than steady state or contraction under the current circumstances?
Plagues precede periods of human golden ages. Population booms precede periods of strife. You having lots of children is in no one's best interests, least of all your existing children.
because old people are expensive. australia currently has about 3% of the total labour force employed in aged care. in many other countries that use pensions rather than superannuation, the younger generation pays for the pensions of the older generation: a collapse in this means potentially catastrophic consequences
3% number from: total health care workers = ~500k, total labour force = ~15m
I'm a Christian so having children is my prerogative unless I want to become a monk. From a secular perspective antinatalism, hedonism, nihilism are all the death knell of a society. It's peak decadence and the sign of a culture in decline. To bandaid the problem the government has been piping in as many immigrants as possible. These immigrants have primarily economic motives. Therefore they do not understand nor are they invested in an ideological way in the American project. So if I (or we) want to live in an America that we recognize or aspire to live in we have to be progenitors of the next generation which means having and raising kids.
The America I recognize and aspire to live in is full of immigrants...
That's not America. It's an international economic zone.
Great, you can spearhead the mass emigration back to Europe / Africa / Asia
(not really getting much of a Native American vibe from your comments)