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Something is happening in English-speaking countries--their per capita GDP has stalled or is falling. What is the cause of this regression? With the exception of the US, it seems that the best days are in the past for the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia (see graph below for data through 2024). For the UK, they are no better off than in 2019; Canada, no better than 2017; Australia and NZ seem to have peaked in 2022. Why?
I do not know for sure, but Grok provided a hint: populations are growing, but output is not keeping up. I suspect this is a result of the Leftism that is increasing government overhead, toxic environmentalism, and importing excessive low-skilled labor. I expect the trend to accelerate as a large proportion of STEM graduates at top colleges in Canada move to the US. (It is 71% for software engineers!) Canada's highest-income province (Alberta) will be voting on independence this year. Super-globalist Mark Carney is biting the hand that feeds the rest of Canada. Whatever the other English-speaking countries are doing, the US should learn from their mistakes and strongly avoid Leftism (aka Democrat Socialism).
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Given the societal trends, is any of this surprising?
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This is an interesting explanation of why things are going as they are in the Anglosphere - except in the US:
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Yes, blame the Windsors. It's because the Queen died and we're stuck with Charles and Camilla Porker B.....
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“I do not know for sure, but Grok provided a hint: populations are growing, but output is not keeping up.”
The birth replacement rate in the West is declining. We are not replacing ourselves, but being replaced by immigrants, legal and illegal. This has to be part of the problem. The burden put on social services just increases with each illegal coming into the West or with each migrant who refuses to assimilate into the culture and laws of his new land.
We are dying out. The only good news on this in the US is that conservatives tend to have larger families and leftists do not.
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Why, it's as if open borders and a social welfare state don't mix. Who could ever have foreseen that?
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