Originally Posted by OOfff

stopping the promotion and worship of a system of nonstop and infinite economic growth at all cost would be a start. Eliminating incentives to have children would be another place to start

Originally Posted by Margaritaville

Boomers grow up babysat by Howdy Doody and the Micky Mouse Club. Never told no because their parents went without things during The War.
Become hippies with free love, psychedelic drugs, and burning draft cards.
Drafted to fight in Vietnam if they weren't rich enough to get out of it.
Discoed through the 70s. More drugs. Elected Jimmy Carter and tanked the economy.
Regan (Greatest Generation) came along and tried to fix things.
Boomers suddenly find themselves wealthy. Yuppies. DINKS. Wall Street. Conspicuous consumption.
Gen X basically raises ourselves while our selfish parents are out selfing.
Savings and Loan Scandal. Economy tanks.
Clinton and Gingrich come in the 90s and try to fix things.
Boomers find themselves wealthy again. Wall Street is back! Party time!
Dot Com Crash. Y2K (Boomer programmers wasted in the 70s too lazy to program 4 digit years?)
Dubya gets elected. First boomer president!
9/11. "Global War on Terrorism". Complete global instability. Corporate greed takes advantage. Economy tanks.
Boomers try to leverage their way out of it. Subprime mortgages. HELOCs. Junk bonds.
2008 economy collapse. Banks fail. "Great Depression II" being considered.
Obama (first Gen X president!) comes along and tries to fix things.
Boomers find themselves wealthy again! Party time!
Country run amok.
Trump comes along and tries to fix things.
Boomers still party time!
Covid hits.
Boomer Biden becomes president.
Economy collapses.
Boomers cry how they got shafted their whole lives and deserve charity. Try to pull up the ladder...

And on the cycle goes until they die.

Meanwhile X, Y, and Z are competing for the scraps that are left in the world wondering if we'll ever get a turn.

Originally Posted by ItnStln

I agree, lets start with eliminating the benefits welfare queens get.

Originally Posted by GogglesPisano

There has never been a better time to be alive.

There has never be lower percentage of people living in absolute poverty.

There has never been a better time to be "poor."

All of this can be traced to an economic system known as capitalism. Free markets and free trade work, despite the left's attempts to obfuscate the data.

Name a better a system. Just one.

Originally Posted by OOfff

as long as consumption and economic growth continues to grow infinitely on finite resources, this will work out.

Originally Posted by OOfff

as long as consumption and economic growth continues to grow infinitely on finite resources, this will work out.

Originally Posted by GogglesPisano

Agreed.

Population growth will inevitably decline as the world gets richer. It happens everywhere it's been tried. Another benefit of capitalism and free trade.

Another benefit of increased wealth is political stability and more concern about the environment.

Those who wrote about the "Population Bomb" in the 1970's ignored the rest of the story.

Originally Posted by OOfff

I agree. Stop subsidizing parents with tax breaks.