Replies to post #11162 on The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[DocLevi]

I saw some story on FoxNews last night on that flipping channels and basically they should've added to the lack of cheap labor reason for raising child limits to what it really is, people enjoy making good money and relaxing in style (more than lack of labor)... It's more like what we've run into here... We have the labor but the labor would desire fair living wage... so to screw us out of jobs they let illegal and legal immigrants in instead just paying a living wage...

Or was it their plan all along, with the empty cities they need the people now? I don't like the thought of it but it'll have to be you buy from China or we nuke you in order to put those cities to use with employed workers... I mean other than food and cloths what could the world population work for and demand in stores with populations growing elsewhere (Indo, India, Africa .... China... Near Asia and MiddleEast - all places of low income high population... or in other words places that don't have good living but too many people with nothing to do... so everyone needs free Internet and a smartphone to keep them busy instead of riots and war... but who feeds them?)...

[wow_happens28]

Interesting line from the 2 child story>>>>

"Three population estimates for 2050. Even with the new two-child policy, the population is expected to decline starting in the 2030s."

[DewDiligence]

“The one-child mandate is the single greatest social-policy error in human history.”

Soundbite from WSJ op-ed piece (http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-new-two-child-policy-and-the-fatal-conceit-1446157377 ).

[DewDiligence]

Demographic-forecasting factoids, 2015-2050:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-demographics-rule-the-global-economy-1448203724

By 2050, the world’s population will have grown 32%, but the working-age population (15 to 64 years old) will expand just 26%. [By 2050] the working-age population will shrink 26% in South Korea, 28% in Japan, and 23% in both Germany and Italy…

For middle-income countries [the working-age population] will rise 23%, led by India at 33%. But Brazil’s will edge up just 3% while Russia’s and China’s will contract 21%.

Among rich countries, the U.S. remains demographically fortunate: Its working-age population should grow 10% by 2050. But it will still shrink as a share of total population from 66% to 60%. The demographic drag on growth, in other words, will last decades.

More discussion apropos to the theme of this message board can be found in the article referenced above. In particular, the aging of the world’s population is bullish for drug/bioetch companies.