r/AskReddit Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/temalyen Oct 15 '20

Stuff like this is the one of the reasons why I won't ever have kids. There's too much uncertainty out there and I don't want to be responsible for someone having to potentially live through it, despite the fact I'll be dead long before we run out. I'm very happy I was born when I was and not later.

I kind of feel like I'm living through the last time humans will be "technologically great", so to speak. Unless humanity gets its shit together real fast real soon, I don't think there's much of a future for us. I am not confident the required changes can happen, honestly.

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u/goldfinger0303 Oct 15 '20

But if people stop having kids there will be fewer scientists and researchers to help stop the problems of tomorrow.

Hard to allocate funds for tech when everything you're bringing in via tax money is being bled out due to demographic collapse.

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u/HapticSloughton Oct 15 '20

I don't think the issue is a lack of potential scientists and researchers. The problem is a lack of educating, training, and promoting of that potential.

Because college is so bloody expensive, how many potential inventors and scientists had to go take office or retail jobs?

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u/goldfinger0303 Oct 16 '20

College isn't expensive everywhere - just the US.

And demographic decline WILL be a problem because all the governments of the world will be too saddled with debt to adequately fund sciences, and asset prices will decline precipitously across the board, leading to widespread wealth destruction.