Reply #18: Isn't the whole point of industrialism and development to have fewer people? [View All]

[The2ndWheel]

If you're just migrating people from poor young countries, to wealthy aging countries, then the developing world can never catch up, and just becomes a baby factory for the developed countries, since those developed countries will then require more and more immigrants to keep their system up and running.

You could make the entire world into one single system, where there is no difference between developed and developing nations, since they would all be the same state. Then it wouldn't matter if villages in Japan were disappearing due to lack of births. Europe's aging populations wouldn't matter. The aging population in the US wouldn't matter. Even the concept of immigration would be taken off the table as an issue.

At some point in the future, if all this progress is supposed to lower population levels, the global population would begin to age, villages would begin to disappear...where do we migrate people from then?