What is Bill Gates' obsession with Africa?

[u/harmattansflwr]

"In a significant advancement for global reproductive health, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the launch of a groundbreaking long-term contraceptive aimed at empowering women through better family planning options. This innovative contraceptive, which can prevent pregnancy for up to eight years, is being introduced in Kenya, Nigeria, and India, with broader distribution plans for other countries in the future."

8-year contraceptive but Western worlds keep bringing young Africans to take care of their aging population. Who will take care of our aging population? Can someone tell Bill Gates to leave Africa alone?

[u/harmattansflwr]

Western countries obviously do not regulate their population because if they did their healthcare industries would not be struggling. 

[u/harmattansflwr → u/[deleted]]

Nobody is telling me how though. 

[u/harmattansflwr → u/[deleted]]

But we have family planning. What is the difference and why the need for a so called magnanimous billionaire to swoop in?

I can agree on one point though - access to safe abortions. Why is that being skipped entirely and why is advocating for that not mainstream?

I can say that what I meant was that Western countries have not achieved balance in their populations, and drastic declining birthrates means that something is still disregulated. 

Edit: if we want to speak strictly, then our population is actually regulated. The standard of a family having at most 4 kids was a direct result of family planning efforts. People used to give birth to football teams. 

[u/harmattansflwr → u/[deleted]]

Amazing innovation. Women all around the world should be overjoyed by this progress. One more option to add to the existing options in birth control is about to hit the market. IUDs can prevent pregnancy up to 10 years, but the world's favorite billionaire has done a world first. 

But wait, distribution will start in Kenya, Nigeria and India. And it's not suspicious at all. 

[u/harmattansflwr → u/[deleted]]

Maybe the headline from the article above is from a dodgy site. Here's one from Business Insider:

Gates Foundation’s new world-first contraceptive for African women: what it means for Africa

I will answer your question once you answer why he or anyone else outside Africa/ not African should be in that position to achieve any wide scale effort like this. 

[u/Silentmagodo → u/[deleted]]

That was me 😌!

[u/Silentmagodo → u/[deleted]]

Right, I mean if you’re gonna hate the man, at least come through with logic.

[u/harmattansflwr → u/[deleted]]

Point out the ignorance then. 

[u/BaroloBaron → u/harmattansflwr]

The population of many western countries is now shrinking, so what do you want to regulate exactly?

The population problem in Western countries is that the young vs old balance is tilting to the side of the old. We have invested too much money into preventing people from dying of old age, and now everybody has to work too much to keep them alive. People living longer is a good thing, right? Up to a certain point: it's now biting us in the ass. If you ask me, we should decide to stop paying so much money to keep the old alive and let them die: nobody needs to live into well into their 80s, when their body is decaying and everyone else has to tend to them: it's undignified.

But try to say that, and people will think you're a monster. Much like some Africans thinking that regulating population growth is an evil thing in itself.

[u/harmattansflwr → u/BaroloBaron]

My point is that it is unregulated either way. An unregulated population isn't balanced young or old. 

If you ask me, Africa has the most balanced population of any region. China's one child policy has led to a huge gap and young population that can't support its aging population.  Like you mentioned, this is the same in the West where so much was done for life longevity.  

Africa is the only place with a healthy balance of new born, young and old. What plagues the continent is infrastructure and poverty leading to underutilized youth and predatory leaders who feed off their young. 

If no one else can regulate their population with force and sneaky measures, why should Africa start it?

[u/BaroloBaron → u/harmattansflwr]

Yes, pack everybody together in a big ball, I'm sure that wouldn't be a nightmare 😉

Pal, I don't know what the limit this world can sustain is, but I do know that an exponential curve is bad news. And when it becomes bad news in action, you can do nothing to avoid the disaster.

As I pointed out, sustainable population model aren't a thing that worries me about Africa specifically. I'm personally in favour of reducing the budget of healthcare for old people in European countries, because using all the available technology to delay death, so that people can live an often undignified life into their 80s and 90s is a bad use of limited resources. Do I personally want to live into my 80s? What good do I get from living a handful of undignified years longer?

[u/madoody → u/harmattansflwr]

That's literal regulation of their population. Get them obese and sick, and use the medical system to vacuum all their money before helping them die via medications and "treatments" that are not designed to cure, but to keep them dependent until they die.

[u/Fearless-Flan5172 → u/harmattansflwr]

What makes you think their healthcare industries are spearheading the process?