Immigration’s Effect on Future Workforces

I think you missed the plague of frogs and locusts. Maybe we all become beachcombers collecting plastic for a living? Even in the direst state there's always opportunity for business.

What is retirement? Work until you drop - problem solved.

Usual consequences of maturing industrial capitalism are both a declining birth rate and increasing longevity. The latter not enough to keep up with the former usually, and so you see declining populations in the advanced examples in the North - Sweden and others in Europe, even China now.

In the US now, we have a population growth rate that is as low as it has been since the Great Depression (0.7%) and, in recent years, a declining life expectancy. Who is killing themselves more frequently with drugs and suicide? Aging white men. Driving their despair is a lack of need for their useful work - in an economic world that evolves past their skills.

That world modeled on "service economies" that depend on populations that sustain robust appetites for more stuff, a never-ending need to consume.

Where are the consumers of the future going to come from if native populations continue to decline? Open the borders to brown hordes from the poor South, where poverty and a disdain for birth control in legacy religions continue to fuel excessive population growth? Or build Walls to keep them out? And pay people in the rich countries a stipend so they can go to the malls, keep buying crap to keep the contraption chugging along?

What to do when people have become superfluous? Ask the Four Horsemen?

It's always a chore to point out the obvious flaws of Capitalism, because someone will drone "But Communism is no better!" Ok, fine. But the endgame is coming into view, or at least the potential for a cataclysmic change, out there on the right side of the charts....big red candles, scary...

interesting,thanks