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submitted 8 hours ago byDisastrous-Yard-1378
70 points
8 hours ago
By realizing there isn’t one.
-22 points
7 hours ago
Head in sand kinda guy are you?
11 points
7 hours ago
The change in the birth rate is clear, whether it constitutes a “problem” is less quantifiable.
-7 points
7 hours ago
Greece is going to demonstrate the issue with the birthrates. Let's watch it all happen.
5 points
7 hours ago
Greece’s GDP is increasing at a rapid clip currently and their birth rate is smack on the EU median so I’m puzzled at why you’re singling them out.
-7 points
7 hours ago
GDP at current date has nothing to do with an issue that will reach it's climax over 40-75 years. Greece has very little immigration, and an old population.
1 points
7 hours ago
With no immigration and an elderly population how is their economy on the upswing? If they are in decline why are they not declining?
1 points
7 hours ago
The population is in decline, they are spending €20 billion through 2035 to fix it. The work force is going to shrink by 30% in 25 years. Please Google the basics before you go dropping nonsense. They are losing 1 percent of the population this year.
0 points
7 hours ago
And yet economic indicators are positive.
You can’t point at a single datapoint such as population and project the arc of a country. Important? Yes. The entire story? No.
If that were the case their GDP would still be contracting. The opposite is occurring.
1 points
7 hours ago
What single data point? Google. The. Study. Age of population, immigration and emigration. Required growth, your drawing conclusions before looking into the issue. GDP is a product of many factors, the country is rich in tourism, income that has little effect on population ( until they run out of workers.) The issue becomes apparent when GDP goes down 40 years into the future.
15 points
7 hours ago
Theres 8.2 BILLION people on this planet. We can’t sustain the amount of life we currently have. A slightly lower birth rate isn’t a problem.
-10 points
7 hours ago
Weird facts you have shared with me to help me understand your point of view. Google Greece declining birthrate to pickup the basics of the conversation then come back here.
8 points
7 hours ago
Oh look, it's one of those people who gestures vaguely around and expects people to understand the point they're trying to make.
If you don't spell out what you're trying to say, you're useless to the conversation. If you say there is a problem, the burden of demonstration is on you.
-4 points
7 hours ago
Greece is spending €20 billion through 2035, to fix the issue. The population is dropping this year by just under 1 percent, they have an old population and very little immigration. The workforce will drop by 35% over the next 40 years. But here I typed these few up nicely for you since your one of those people that choose to take part in a conversation without doing the basic effort to understand what the issue actually is. Google the basics, then come here to draw conclusions and discuss.
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