Well what about (wealthy) governments evolving a solution to fertility? So far governments have found it easier to import foreigners, where all the costs to raise them to educated adults have been paid for and they already have a professional job offer. This “brain drain” strategy only works until there is nowhere to drain from. (because the most populous countries that provide educated individuals are both becoming relatively richer and experiencing their own population declines)
As far as I understand it wealthy governments have barely tried seriously at all, perhaps from various Overton windows about how parents are supposed to be responsible to care for their own children. (Yet the education and career system withholds the funds to do so until parents are near the upper end of their prime breeding years. In addition housing shortages created almost entirely by the government, as well as medicine and education costs ever rising, mainly as a consequence of government action, cause the obvious consequences)
The government could afford to pay a lot more to young adults for the burden of having children. Each child is millions in lifetime income to the government if they succeed.
The government could do a lot of things to maximize the return on its investment.
One of the big problems with creche parents is statistically strangers care for others children less than their own and commit abuse. But with ubiquitous surveillance—lots of cheap cameras streaming to the cloud with basic AI to transcribe and look over the footage—abuse would be nearly impossible, and professional adults who’s salaries are mainly paid by the government could take care of the young children, freeing up the parents to finish school/early career/socialize and have additional children.
Combine things like this together and you could settle on 4+ children per mother—where some have 10 or more as it is profitable to do so—and essentially eliminate your problems.
Well what about (wealthy) governments evolving a solution to fertility? So far governments have found it easier to import foreigners, where all the costs to raise them to educated adults have been paid for and they already have a professional job offer. This “brain drain” strategy only works until there is nowhere to drain from. (because the most populous countries that provide educated individuals are both becoming relatively richer and experiencing their own population declines)
As far as I understand it wealthy governments have barely tried seriously at all, perhaps from various Overton windows about how parents are supposed to be responsible to care for their own children. (Yet the education and career system withholds the funds to do so until parents are near the upper end of their prime breeding years. In addition housing shortages created almost entirely by the government, as well as medicine and education costs ever rising, mainly as a consequence of government action, cause the obvious consequences)
The government could afford to pay a lot more to young adults for the burden of having children. Each child is millions in lifetime income to the government if they succeed.
The government could do a lot of things to maximize the return on its investment.
One of the big problems with creche parents is statistically strangers care for others children less than their own and commit abuse. But with ubiquitous surveillance—lots of cheap cameras streaming to the cloud with basic AI to transcribe and look over the footage—abuse would be nearly impossible, and professional adults who’s salaries are mainly paid by the government could take care of the young children, freeing up the parents to finish school/early career/socialize and have additional children.
Combine things like this together and you could settle on 4+ children per mother—where some have 10 or more as it is profitable to do so—and essentially eliminate your problems.