China needs to create fewer jobs for a smaller population. In contrast, countries like India with high population growth will be facing huge problems in finding jobs for its younger population. Population dividend mantra is a big fat lie. China needs less of everything, from food to housing if a smaller population does result. Here in Red Dot, do we remember the propaganda years ago that a smaller family equates to a better life for its people. Did Singaporeans go into extinction?
If we are talking about producing humans to fight wars, that is even less detrimental down the road, with drones and military robots doing the job more efficiently, needing no food to feed an army of robots. Countries need not send a army, just sending missiles will be enough.
Talking about critical mass, India would likely rule the world with a population that puts even the USA to shame at 1.62. What kind of life are Indian citizens having? Do we see the dividends they are reaping? What kind of life are some USA citizens leading? Homelessness for some, two or three jobs for others, with housing beyond the reach of most. Is that all there is about a big population?
Goodness, I have not even talked about Singapore today at just 6.1 million population and already human traffic at Bishan MRT station during peak hours is breaking the station with the Circle Line running and more to be added.
There are advantages and disadvantages of a big population, and no one direction is the best. It is how the Government manages the population that is important.
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Bigger population for a richer but smaller country like Germany or Japan might sound more realistic for dividend reaping. Having said that, both Germany and Japan are now sliding down the economic ladder too, so it is difficult to be generalizing. Circumstances can change.
For a poor country like India, it is a big liability to say the least, by having a large expanding population. India has not solved its poverty problem by any stretch of the imagination, so adding more people will test its employment and job creation agenda. Jobs, and I mean good paying jobs must be created in order to lift people out of poverty. If not, children born into poverty will never rise beyond the situation of their parents. This is a chicken and egg problem for India, and I think one solution is keeping the population increase as low as possible. But who am I to say such things when the experts have different views?
India does have great thinkers in the ancient past, and recent past as well, but most have either migrated and what is left are bottom crawlers from inside the barrel that has led India into what it is today. Just look at the state of its ministers, from top to bottom, that are hardly worthy of mention.
I have been thinking about how India could produce such profound philosophers like Siddhartha Gautama (the spiritual teacher who later became Shakyamuni Buddha) that Indians themselves refused to acknowledge for all his brilliance. It was left to the Chinese, Japanese and South-East Asians to realize the brilliance of the Buddha's teaching.
Even Albert Eistein thinks that Buddhism is the only scientific 'religion' in the world, and its teachings stand up to dissection and scrutiny that other religions failed to do so. In actual fact. With due respect to Einstein, Buddhism is not a religion in the true sense, with no God, but a philosophy.
There's a video by one lady creator How Singapore To which documents mainly on the BTOs and SBFs of the HDB new up coming projects
She used to emphasise that certain Estates are future Goldmines which could be sold in the future by the homeowners in millions.
I, scoundrel posted hello no good times are forever.
You might be able to buy the resale for four or five roomed ones which the current owners paid nearly a million at less then 500K or less if there's a recession and depression.
So big population good or bad?
If you have a big fish tank, by all mean put in different kind of fishes to make it look wonderful. Also provided you have the mean to put in food for the fishes. But if you are a small fish tank like sinkieland, then you are going to choke all the fishes in it by putting more fishes.
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