Inverted pyramid

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Historically, as country modernises, families have fewer children while retirees live longer. This gradually changes the typical pyramid-shaped population demography to an inverted one. This raises serious concerns on many financing problems such as health and pension, among others.

For various reasons, families choose to have fewer children (fewer than 2 on average) that causes this shrinking population, while everyone generally lives longer beyond retirement.

Among the measures countries have been doing to cope or improve this situation are to provide incentives to have more children, attract new citizens from overseas and to extend retirement age (but only effective if older workers can still get employment).

Here's a radical idea: what if the states pay to get ovaries and sperms and hire surrogate mothers (or use whatever futuristic device) to have their (the state's) own children? The states then act as parents to these children until they are adults (age 18 or 21).

Of course there is a host of issues associated with this but it's an interesting idea, isn't it? Perhaps it'll be made into a movie :)

Comments

William said…
A State Breeding Program? Sounds so Nazi.
July 9, 2011 at 12:32 PM
MrBunnyBan said…
Huh, did you tell me about this one? I was just thinking about it recently
July 10, 2011 at 9:20 AM
Jaded Jeremy said…
William,
Everyone else is free to have children. Ideally, children of the state should not receive more privileges than others. Ideally.

Ban,
Yes, I did.
July 10, 2011 at 4:44 PM
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