&gt; <i>The fact that the EU’s replacement rate is 1.59 children per couple and the continent needs substantial levels of immigration to maintain a productive workforce</i><p>&gt; The idea here is that all people are the same, and all you need to do is shoehorn enough to keep the economy going.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s time to start thinking <i>why</i> people who end up living in the West are unwilling to reproduce, despite having the highest standard of living ever available to humans.<p>Solving the underpopulation problem by constant import of uneducated masses from all over the world is going to cost more and more, both in terms of the peta-man-hours needed to teach them functioning in new reality (language barrier for a start) and in terms of things going wrong when the former fails.<p>I mean, what are these guys supposed to do here? Join the rat race, stop reproducing and replace themselves with who-knows-whom 100 years down the line? Despise this culcure and blow stuff up? Something else?