You can solve it that way. The industrialized nations will remain stable, and third world crapholes will remain third world crapholes with slightly fewer people, and higher per capita standards of living. |
If a person in Dhaka, Bangladesh or Abuja, Nigeria or the jungles of Peru can outbid me on Guru.com then he can have my job (for that particular project), my salary, and my lifestyle - which is perfectly fair. The overwhelming majority of people living the modern post-industrialized lifestyle simply aren't breeding, no matter if you classify them as the zeroth world or the tenth world. Incomes keep going up, religious delusions keep going down, and the fertility rates are in free-fall - everywhere.
There are no nations - just one aging and human civilization that will soon begin shrinking!
Humanity is not going to die out due to its own success. Short-term trends will fix themselves. If we could get the government out of our lives then more women would be able to afford to stay home and raise children - or stay out of the workplace after that first child is born. |
I agree that government interventionism in the family has a significant impact on fertility rates, for both economic and psychological reasons. I like to baselessly speculate about the loss of the "king of my castle" effect and fear of "raising little snitches for the state" that's pushing fertility rates down, but the government also conducts redistribution of wealth for the benefit of the breeders that could be pushing them up. That's why libertarians need to think long and hard about this issue. Human population is the most important economic resource of all!
Your population shrinkage problem is just as much a phantom as global warming or global dimming. I'm not saying your numbers are wrong, I'm saying your conclusions are. |
Global warming / cooling / dimming / etc are cases of baseless speculation based on inconclusive data due to pro-government bias in government-funded academia. The demographic decline is real, not just on paper but in fact in places like Europe, Russia, and Japan. A few individual nations can solve this problem through immigration - the whole world can't.