David Graham
4 min readJul 24, 2022

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Based upon your hateful and troll-like comment I'm guessing you either are a troll or have not read what I've written. Under the assumption you are not a troll, I would assume you just simply read the headline and made assumptions to throw out hate without offering any true debate on what has been said.

But just for reference, firstly, the human race can't survive without a sustainable population narrative i.e. we need to keep our populations stable. The advancement of technology is making having children paradoxically ever more expensive which is making it harder for those in developed countries to be able to afford to have children. This is creating rapidly dwindling populations and it will get worse unless we do something about it.

This post is about highlighting the need to break the trend of having children becoming so increasingly expensive. Surely that is the opposite of unethical, as surely it is unethical that millions of people cannot afford to have children in developed countries?

To respond to your other ridiculous comment of racism, your response I'm afraid is the racist thing. Here is was why, any time that racism is thrown about when there is no racism perpetuates racism and hinders the fight against racism which by default makes it racist.

The countries where birth rates are high are developing countries and the countries where birth rates are low are developed ones. Japan, South Korea, and China are actually the countries with the lowest birth rates, those countries combined amount to a quarter of the global population and they are not white.

So, the problem has nothing to do with ethnicity, it has to do with like said in the post societal development. When a society reaches developed status through technological advancement the cost of children explodes upwards making having children more difficult for those without wealth.

This is a trend in every country that reaches developed status regardless of ethnicity. It is the trend that needs to be broken because it is not only unethical it is damaging for society.

In terms of immigration being the solution, it is simply not as simple as that. Here is why, firstly, once all nations reach developed status all nations will have this problem i.e. a rapidly dwindling birthrate due to the cost of having children. That would be very bad, yes, we do need to reduce population size to avoid global warming but slowly otherwise everything we have built will crumble because a developed model is like said in the post, basically a giant Ponzi scheme.

That means immigration as the solution is simply kicking the problem into the future rather than solving it in the present which would be the ethical thing to do.

The second reason immigration is not the solution is because, firstly, if you take skilled workers from developing countries, you rob those countries of the very people who are most able to help those nations reach developed status. So, you are robbing those nations of the very people who can build those nations.

If you take unskilled workers or low skilled workers, you do one of two things, you take the most motivated low skilled workers again robbing a developing country of the very workforce that could help build it. Or you take people who inevitably are in poverty in one country and put them into poverty in another country which simply exacerbates the problem of hardship.

So, the idea of taking workers from developing countries just because developed countries are not having enough children because it is too costly, is surely extremely unethical? Because surely you are taking the very people from a country that can help that country and all the people in it escape extreme poverty by building it?

Also, if you truly believe that we need less humans, surely you would want countries to reach developed status as soon as possible because that is the one proven way to lower birth rates? Surely robbing such nations of their workforce just because developed nations are not having enough children under this context would be, not just unethical, but highly self-defeating?

Immigration is a brilliant thing and I am a big fan of it, but when people move it should be because they want to go to that country not because they want to escape the hardship of the country they are in. That's why it's imperative that we help developing countries reach developed status. It is also why it is imperative that we break the trend between technological advancement and societal development and increasing costs for having children.

Those are the two big imperatives of the century, helping all nations reach developed status and breaking the trend between societal development and the increased cost of having children. Both of which are highlighted in this post.

Anyhow, I will leave it there. If you have read my post, thanks for reading. If you have not I suggest you perhaps read it first before commenting any further.

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David Graham
David Graham

Written by David Graham

Due to injury I write using voice dictation software. Lover of psychology, science, humour, history, fiction & self-improvement. https://linktr.ee/DavidGraham86

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