Oddbean new post about login | logout The weirdest thing is when they say "The great thing about the immigrants is their strong family orientation." Yes, you might want to try that, yourself, sometime. 🙃
Yup 💯 I was a technology teacher for refugees for a year, as my first job, and that's exactly what all the other childless teachers would talk about all day.
State pensions and healthcare play a massive role in this as well. People assume there will be young people to look after them when they are old but don't want to do the work of raising those people. If they look at the self reported rates of absue in care homes they would especially wish they had put the work in
The sending countries often suffer from exporting their young people, later. Happened with a lot of Eastern European countries. They don't actually have "excess offspring". They just have a large, young generation and no plan to keep them busy until their parents age.