>>13585318Other poster you replied to.
I would say "demographic collapse" is only part of it. Here's all the observations I've made and assumptions I'm making:
>wealth inversely correlates to reproduction>children negatively correlate to happiness in WEIRD countriesI.E. People in wealthy countries won't reproduce
>Wealthier countries have higher happiness levels>emigrees to wealthier countries see increases in incomeI.E. people will move to wealthy countries.
>(legal) immigrants and their children tend to be more economically successful and educated>(legal) Immigration strongly correlates to overall gdp (not gdp per capita)>(legal) immigration has an unclear effect on gdp per capita>Wealth distribution follows a Pareto distribution>Legal immigration correlates to increases in overall workforce>wealthy countries tend to be aging and have less people in the workforce>High immigration countries tend to age more and have less people in the workforce>wealth positively correlates with happiness>Political decisions correlate with political opinions of economic elites, not regular people.>Immigrants tend to support immigrationI.E. the influential will favor immigration for the sake of money, immigrants for social reasons, while regular Joes have no strong economic reason to disfavor it, and the entire thing addresses labour shortages.
There's no big secret here, people are essentially incentivized to not reproduce, to undermine their own reproductive chances further, while immigrants benefit from immigrating, while there's more political support than opposition for immigration. It's not as if this topic has not been studied into the ground anyways.
