Population-growth advocates ignore the long-term pension and health costs of an aging expanded population
Evidence
Population promoters do not explain how societies should fund the growing pension and health costs that progressively expanding populations will incur when they age. Adding more people will increase a workforce but is troublesome in the long term for a society that has to care for them through old age. Free-market fundamentalists compound this problem, probably because they want women to bear more babies, but fight against taxes to cover the costs of raising them and caring for them when they become elderly on the grounds that taxes are bad for business. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2649
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- ADDENDUM: Supports the ‘Grafting & Growth’ infrastructure frame loosely, but more directly connects to a potential angle on how pro-natalist ideology privatizes child-rearing costs while socializing benefits.