Artificially aiming for high birth rates is useless, faster just to redo the economic ponzi systems which rely on it to be a growing number. And Earth has a lot of people who can be motivated to immigrate if it’s certain groups their age pyramids need.
I agree that it’s not a helpful goal to focus on but I do think as an indicator by itself and without high enough levels of immigration it’s not necessarily a great sign for a country being able to sustainably raise enough taxes to care for the aging population and provide services.
Is it? For Japan?
Artificially aiming for high birth rates is useless, faster just to redo the economic ponzi systems which rely on it to be a growing number. And Earth has a lot of people who can be motivated to immigrate if it’s certain groups their age pyramids need.
I agree that it’s not a helpful goal to focus on but I do think as an indicator by itself and without high enough levels of immigration it’s not necessarily a great sign for a country being able to sustainably raise enough taxes to care for the aging population and provide services.
Of course a healthy society with a hopeful future would support people who want to reproduce. That’s kinda the blocking issue everywhere at the moment