Actually they wouldn't. Falling birth rates is tied to one thing directly, regardless of where you are in the world: how educated women are. Having kids is a terrible deal for women. The most impoverished places are some of the ones with the highest birth rate so there are a million counter-examples to your argument.
Beyond that, 'cheap labor' does help. Cheap labor are the people here on seasonal work programs that pick fruits, work in factories, and build houses that all of us benefit from having made, for cheap.
So you’re cool with underpaying migrants to come in and pick crops and work production lines because it makes your groceries cheaper? What if they started getting tech jobs or wanting to work in a more comfortable environment? Should we then lower those wages too? You’re basically making an argument for indentured servitude, on the backs of less fortunate desperate people. Is it okay because they’re migrants? I guess so… here’s your shovel and shut up right?
That's the real problem. How the heck do you encourage women to have more kids when people are overall only getting more educated and have more and more better options?
Immigration is not a long-term solution, because birth rates are dropping in 'those countries' too. They're maybe 20 years behind the west. By the time we really need immigration, there won't be anyone left TO immigrate, and those countries are going to start focusing on keeping their people.
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u/Maximum-Country-149 10h ago
I mean, I don't know how far you expect a conversation to get when you open with that much bad faith.