[nyokodo]

> ... your colleague who is ultra competitive and childless ... will just snatch up your position and when you are back you will find yourself sidelined. I see zero issues with this

The major issue with this is that it discourages having children and that is a major social problem in many countries of the world. Many developed nations are on the cusp of devastating demographic decline and fertility rates have been falling in developing nations for decades which can't replace 100s of millions of retiring Europeans/Chinese etc.

[adflux]

Not having children is not a major societal problem, it would actually solve them. Many of the largest problems in the world would be fixed by a smaller human population. Food, housing scarcity, climate change...

[tolbish]

Those problems you describe are not due to the number of people, it's due to how countries and communities are organized. We have more than enough land and food to house and feed everyone, and those do not need to come at the expense of obliterating the environment. These are essentially resource utilization and distribution issues, not raw number issues.

[Dylan16807]

Rapid drops in population are very much a problem.

[nyokodo]

> Many of the largest problems in the world would be fixed by a smaller human population. Food, housing scarcity, climate change...

What we’re seeing is the beginning of a sudden and massive drop in the working population across vast regions of the planet. That’s a recipe for famine, decaying infrastructure, war, burning wood and coal instead of maintaining sophisticated energy infrastructure.

[anthonypasq]

pretty much no one who studies this sort of stuff agrees with you, just so you know.

[adflux]

Wow what an enlightening comment