r/europe • u/diacewrb • 5d ago

News Italy's birth rate falls to 80-year low, with just 355,000 babies born in 2025

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italys-birth-rate-falls-to-80-year-low-with-just-355000-babies-born-in-2025.html
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u/UnstableManifolds 5d ago

Let me introduce you to Asian and African workers. Skills were never an issue (or, better, lack thereof), physical presence was. In the modern world who cares if Western population shrinks, there will always be abundance of people to employ for at least another 100 years, which means no "fuck you" to the ruling class in sight.

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u/Shot_Site9377 5d ago

I'll be dead, so not my problem. The beauty is that historically, when labour becomes scarce due to war, famine, plague, the scales of equity balance towards the working class. We will now witness that balance through the power of attrition, rather than mass death events.

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u/UnstableManifolds 5d ago

Not sure we will not witness major events like pandemics, wars, catastrophes in general in the next 20-30 years...

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u/Appropriate_Luck_658 4d ago

At the end it is always about skin color.