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Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

The CSO has released interesting stats from 2018.

The natural increase in the population is falling sharply unfortunately.

It's still the highest in the EU though.

What does this mean? Ultimately if standards of living are to be maintained, it is a statement of fact we need more and more immigrants to make up these shortfalls.

Only A) if we want unsustainable "growth", more costs to the environment, C) more ethnic strife and D) never mind that unless we restrict inflow to particular demographics who tend to rise to the middle and top, we'll face an increasing welfare bill. As it stands that's already in play, with those of African origin who came here due to the birthright loophole having higher background levels of reliance on social welfare than the natives. The kicker is those advantageous demographics, East Asians, Indian, professional classes of all origins coming here legally are also most likely to have smaller families. It's generally the poor who have more kids and unskilled economic migrants we most certainly do not need and the need for them will become less and less in an increasingly automated world.

As a small example; a mate of mine runs a small/medium business. Twenty or thirty years ago he would have required at least 5 employees, more like 10 in busier periods. Now it's basically just him and a bunch of machines. Two years back he was toying with the idea of an employee, but instead invested in another machine. Far less ongoing hassle.

That's only going to become more in play and not just with physical labour. The usual response is new jobs will become available like they did when say the canals made way for the railways and then roads. Big difference is manual labour on canals easily translated into manual labour on railways or roads. The really big difference is that in the past muscle was replaced by machines, this time and increasing brain power is being replaced. Look at the Wall st stock exchange floor. Long gone are the blokes screaming buy/sell in coloured jackets. It's now essentially a TV studio for reporters on the market. In the US the number of legal interns has dropped off a cliff, because the research they used to do is now done by IT systems.

Then we have this poxy virus. The chances are extremely high that we will face into a recession and more, a load of companies won't come back, or will come back with fewer employees working from home, realising that they didn't need a fair number, saving serious money in wages and office rent.

I will bet now to any of the younger people reading this that in 40 or 50 years time we will be struggling to understand the current idea of More People!! and unsustainable growth and will envy the nations with a low population density.