How would you fix the birth rate problem?

[@jelly434]

8 billion is too many

[@Sgoze]

after you.

[@cesaravegah3787]

I wont fix it, the world elites seem to be perfectly happy living in obscene luxury while making life inreasingly miserable for everyone else, if more and more people opts out of the game they soon will be forced to make it a little more fair, as for modern society collapsing, well, take a number, through history humanity has suffered like a dozen major collapses and here we are, let the ones with most to lose be the ones to make the biggest effort for a chance

[@TheRedRaccoonDog]

Policies to make children more affordable.

[@Mina_Meow]

I am shocked at how many people say it's not a problem I live in Austria and we feel the problems of declining populations a lot... there's just not enough workers to keep our society functioning as it did, businesses are closing down because they don't have staff, opening times get cut because there's noone to work those times, quality of service has gone down a lot and especially in health care, we have taken a massive drop... people are sent home early from hospital, you have to wait much longer now for appointments, doctors don't have a lot of time for you, hospital beds have to stay empty because there's not enough nurses to look after the people in them and all that in the face of a growing number of old people that just need more care than young people... in addition, our pension system is on the verge of collapse I'd still say globally we're one of the best off countries overall but it's noticeably going downhill and so will other societies if we don't do anything about it (doesn't have to be spiking birth rates back up but it is definetly a crisis that needs some kind of solution)

[@FabianDialer-vw1zk]

It's made even worse by illegal immigration that overloads certain sectors. It wouldn't be such an issue if we only had the native population.

[@rosehill7919]

Well, the thing is, there is nothing that can be done that doesn't have horrific implications for society either way. People don't want to have children because it reduces their quality of life, one way or another, either because they can't afford them, or they don't want to sacrifice their free time and leisure for child-rearing labor. On the other hand, older generations need people to have children for the reasons you outlined, and their quality of life gets reduced if children aren't born. So either way, some demographic will lose on their quality of life. IMHO, having children should be treated like a job at this point, not an individual pursuit. If you have children, you essentially provide a service to society and thus should be compensated accordingly, with a stipend to SAHP and subsidies that make having more children an attractive prospect. Of course, that also means that we need stricter regulations of what constitutes adequate conditions to raise a child so that the children aren't just born out of greed and then abandoned, but actually get provided with quality childcare.

[@Mina_Meow]

@sunnyhill7919 everyone loses quality of life when services get reduced like I described above and sure, the elderly and the sick might be affected most but it's an overall societal issue and especially us younger ones are growing up with the prospect of not getting pensions when we are old because the collaps of that system drags agree with your second paragraph, that would be good meassures to take

[@zefft.f4010]

I wouldn't, because it isn't a problem. It's manufactured hysteria.

[@steverempel8584]

I'd fix the low birthrate problem by traveling 30 years back in time, then declaring the overpopulation problem fixed.

[@confusedwhynot]

You would have to go back to the 1960's and prevent the ideology in the first place. That is the time when contraceptives became legal and they started this big push about overpopulation. It was right after the end of the Baby Boomer Generation. People that got it in their head that the world wouldn't be able to sustain a growing population. They don't understand or comprehend the vastness of the earth's natural resources. I do agree that we should be more conscientious about waste and being good stewards of the earth. Zero population growth is not the answer.