Japan Has No Kids

The economy in Japan is imploding. No one is having kids. Remember the other day when I was talking about robots to take care of old people? Well, they are working on that right now.

What occurs to me though, is that you'll still need people to fix the computers. America will at least have a model to follow as the population implosion continues around the globe.

I'm thinking about China, too. They have had their one-child policy in place for a while which is producing extra boys but fewer children in general. So if there are two old people for every child, there aren't as many women, so men are taking care of their aging parents sans wife and thus not producing offspring....... This whole scenario sounds ominous to me both economically and socially. Women are the traditional care takers both of children and parents. What will happen when there are a bunch of sexually frustrated men with no woman and enormous financial burdens?

I've said it before, that the natural solution is war--it solves many purposes. War stimulates the economy (in the short term, long term it's a net loss of resources), it kills young men, it balances out the male-female ratio, it controls a restless population.

On the upside, there won't be evil people around to pollute the planet.