Bill Gates Applauds Thailand's Demographic Suicide
With smashing timing, Bill and Melinda Gates
released
a missive in the Wall Street Journal about
the three myths on the world's poor coinciding with
a report announcing that the top richest 85
people (a list they are solidly on) in the world have more money than the
poorest 3.5 billion or 50% of the entire world's population.
This is an insane wealth gap. These people and
their bajillions are essentially running the world.
In the third myth of their response, the Gates'
commend Thailand as a great example of family planning because Thai women
went from having an average of six children per woman just a few decades ago
to having an average of 1.6 children today.
There's just one problem. Replacement rate -
that is the number of children needed to maintain a stable population - is
2.1 (but it's even higher for countries with higher mortality rates).
That means that Thailand is below replacement
rate, a reality that is screwing up the country's social and economic
foundations.
It's so bad in Thailand, actually, that
articles have detailed the "aging crisis"
the country now faces due to the low birth rate. In fact, all the Asian
nations are now facing this issue, and most of the developed world is below
replacement rate as well.
Leave it to
Bill Gates, billionaire eugenicist
extraordinaire, to applaud a country for committing demographic suicide.
For more on "conscience laundering" and
the Charitable-Industrial Complex,
see here.
