Demographics: UN says countries must prepare for aging populations
All countries need new social and economic policies to prepare for the reality of an aging world now, the United Nations said in a new report on Thursday. Source: UN…
Demographics: “Are demographics destiny?”
For many reasons, but especially due to the decrease in the fertility rate, we will see much more immigration in the 21st century, unlike what we have seen before. Over…
Demographics: Interesting age trends
This shows why the world’s population is eventually shrinking:
Demographics: France proposing to raise retirement age
A new pension reform proposal was presented Tuesday that included plans to raise France’s retirement age — which is expected to face some significant backlash in the country. Source: France’s…
Demographics, Business: The Growth of Planned Obsolescence
Fast-forward a handful of decades, and now several generations of people are conditioned to buy the new thing and to keep replacing it. Source: From clothes to tech, why is…
Demographics: Media begins push for more immigration to the U.S.
The labor shortage is a long-term trend due to low fertility rates. Eeconomists think the solution is “more immigration”, even though this shortage will soon be global – there won’t…
Demographics: “Slower growth in the working-age population”
“These excess retirements might now account for more than 2 million of the 31/2 million shortfall in the labor force.” He said a second factor contributing to the labor supply…
Demographics: The World’s Happiest Country nonsense
As explained in excruciating detail here, the World’s Happiest Country metric does not measure anyone’s happiness. Instead, it collects some metrics, weights them, drops them into the Stat-o-Meter, and pops…
Automation: Most restaurants investing in automation
Restaurant chains experimented with automation this year as the labor crunch pressured their profits. Source: Restaurant chains are investing in robots, bringing change for workers The labor shortage is a…
Demographics: Education loan forgiveness, college tuition inflation
Demographics, fewer young people, demand for labor and higher salaries may result in fewer young people compelled to take out large loans and attend college. But the experts think college…
Demographics: Paul Ehrlich argues science is wrong and peer review doesn’t work
He’s been wrong about essentially everything – just read the comments to his own post. But defends himself by “name calling”, then “appeal to authority”, then more “appeal to authority”…
Demographics: “the great demographic implosion”
This 25-minute video is a good overview of the demographic challenges we face. The media spends about 1000x more time on the climate change hypothesis while ignoring the demographic issues…
Demographics: “Value of graduate degrees is going down”
Yep: Another report from the New York Post suggests that students are pursuing graduate degrees to distinguish themselves in the job market. With degree inflation, or the rising percentage of…
Demographics: The end of “everyone needs to go to college”?
The labor shortage is a long-term trend, not a short-term problem. This shortage is caused by smaller cohorts of new young workers due to the collapse of the fertility rate.…