richardgaywood wrote:
Craster wrote:
Increased birthrates is so far from a sustainable solution to that problem that it's not funny.
My point is, the UK, in common with the US and most of continental Europe, does not have a growing population and hence is not going to suffer from any sort of overcrowding issue in the foreseeable future.
Except it already is. There isn't enough available social housing, there isn't enough private housing. School class sizes are way up on what they were 20 years ago.
We're not in danger of outgrowing our available land, but we have already outgrown our available infrastructure. Lots of this is down to investment in infrastructure not matching growth in population (which, accepted, is not just from childbirth), but we're certainly not in a situation where we are short of young people and therefore need to subsidise them.
Hence the earlier car analogy. We don't need your kids, people. If you can't afford one, don't get one.
Of course, the welfare state absolutely should kick in where unforseen circumstances lead to a child not being able to be supported by its parents - illness, divorce, loss of work etc.
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GoddessJasmine wrote:
Drunk, pulled Craster's pork, waiting for brdyime story,reading nuts. Xz