I do not know much about how things are in Australia or Asian Pacific, but i was browsing this thread for interest last night and some thought came to my mind, which some of them i have though earlier too.
There was a talk about the immigrants, and maybe not having enough babies. How i see things at least where i live, there seems to always be excess males and never excess females. Females are always in high demand and the value of males have plummetted seriously. Would it not be wise to only accept female immigrants, and not male immigrants at all. Which then would balance this issue and make males more valuable.
I suppose the right amount of females is something like 2/3 of population, and the right amount of males is something like 1/3 of the population to make the demand even and so, then there would not be that much excess males. Seems kind of absurd, but this seems to be how it goes in reality. There are always those males who have many women, and always those women who are satisfied to, and want to be with males with many females even they know about it. So it often goes so, that one male have multiple woman, and then multiple males have none. If there are 1/2 of females and 1/2 of males, it always ends in a result, where all females are taken, and there are still a lot of excess males who have none. Wont this affect the birth rate too, when there is lots of male potential that go to waste, because there is not enough females to be had. Its not like anyone is forcing the females. They will come to these decisions on their own. They do this themself and choose on free will to have mostly males, that also have other women at the same time. You might assume, that there would be couples. Male and Female who then make a family and take care of children together. But it rarely goes so. Even this kind of situations usually end up in divorce, and then the female takes the children and have new male, and many times the male is left without.
I suppose that the biology in humans have been somehow planned that many mens die, so that there is always less males than females. They do die in wars, in accidents and so on because men have more adrenaline and take more risks. And when other mens attack, its men who defend and die to protect the females because female value is seen as higher than male value. The females give birth, so they need to be protected. And if you run out of females, you are in serious trouble no matter how many males you have. To some extend, it seems to be genetic that females live longer, and males perish more bringing a natural end result, that there are more females than males. This might not go well to many people if you suggest to only take female immigrants. But it really would be nice, wouldnt it ?
Lets say each year you take this many immigrants, and every single one of them are young beautiful females, and suddenly your country would be full of foreign females ready to make babies with all those males who are left without. Taking in foreign males wont help. They just "take your jobs" as you mentioned and then "take your women" and usually so, that they do not only take one women, but many domestic females for one foreign male.
Taking foreign males in is not good if you think it like this. Better give those jobs to domestic males and then take only young, single foreign females in to make it more even, and hike up the male value so that more males can have females, resulting in more children. More males do not result in more children, but more females do. Female is valued higher than males, and is on protected status already. So why would you take less valued individuals, as in males, if you can take higher valued assets as in, females who can give birth ? They do give birth to males too if you need them.
And i think Australia is in good position geographically in this. You are close to many Asian nations with lots of beautiful and awesome females, who would be thrilled to move to Australia and be together with Australian males. In Europe too, Asian females are a big hit, and especially Thai Wifes are very popular for all kind of leftover males, who cannot have a domestic one. When African and Middle East men are very popular amongst European women, and usually reserve multiple women for one man so that they attack anyone, who try to approach one of their many females that they claim as their own. This seems to be common practice among Middle East and African males. Take new females endlessly, and then aim to keep every one they gain and never let go of any of those. And never take care of the children they produce. So why take this kind of males in your society ? Why not young beautiful females instead. Sounds good right ? Taking these males sounds bad and causes problems, right ? They are single males what they take. Not even families. But single males who establish a harem inside your country and attack everyone physically who tries to say anything about it, and then enforces their claim on those women physically. If you ask me, it is a very bad idea to take this kind of people and grant them citizenship. I would rather have an endless stream of beautiful and young foreign females, which will also affect the birth rate on positive way, when these males do not. There are always excess domestic males to be with women so they bring nothing basically. They are only there to lower the value of other males, when the male value is already very low like mentioned, making it even more imbalanced.
So if you think about it in cold logic, and weight the gains and losses. Why would you EVER take young single males in. And why would you not take mostly, or only young single females in ? The young single female is a high value commodity in itself regardless of any other indicators. The young single male is a disposable asset, which is not valuable in itself if they wont have other good qualities, like some rare expertise and those kind of people are not usually desperate to become immigrants. But are high valued assets, with good jobs and high salaries and not desparate men.
But this is really what they do. They take mostly the young single males in who have no valuable qualities or education at all. And young single females are rare as immigrants. Wonder why ?
They basically choose to take in bulk trash, what everyone have excess already. And somehow wont take in the rough diamond, which every young single female is even without any other qualities than being female. Its probably because old females make the decisions who will be taken, and there is no other reason than making the situation even more imbalanced, so that they can have young single males as their sex toys, even they are fat, 60 year old grumpy ladies with multiple divorces. Its for them basically. Its not about making babies, but acquiring sex toys for old females who are at the end of their cycle. And it wont help on bringing in more babies. They want to alter the market situation even further, that a 60 year old ugly and fat divorced woman is at the similar demand than muscular, young and capable male. This is why they do this.
If Russia and Ukraine continue on what they do. Soon this situation is corrected in there, and the lonely excess males will have easier time to find a lady because a lot of the male populace is dead or crippled in the war. It wont affect their birth rate, it only means that the excess males have an easier time to find a female now and the value of single males is up when most of them are dead and then many women are left grieving for their husband who died in the war. So become free again. But this can also be corrected by taking few million young single females in as immigrants, and none of the males.
Just imagine. Everywhere you go, there are young single immigrant females looking for a man. And its suddenly good to be male. Those grumby old woman wont like this at all, because their market value drops by a large margin and no one wants them anymore. But thats too bad. They wont birth more children either way.
So how about it. Lets make Australia the #1 female immigrant continent ?
In the next election vote, promise to bring in two million young single females and none of the males and look at them voting for you ?
Then there was this other issue i was thinking about. How realistic it would be, that Australia or New Zealand would want to form a military alliance, or then a similar system to be formed inside Asia Pacific, than Europe have in EU ?
And how good it would be, if those issues between China vs Taiwan, and North Korea vs South Korea could be finally settled, and a lasting peace would come in the pacific ? Maybe you could have an Asian Union, free movement, and then even China to join ? Friends, not enemies.
Even that would bring a lot of beautiful Females in Australia, if they would have free movement from other places.
Yes. I have solution for everything. You can just ask me!
You really want this. You do. But did anyone else say this out loud. No, they did not. But i did. And it is only a matter of arranging things. Those grumpy old women wont vote for you anyway, so what can you lose ?
And then promise security in Australia, new alliances and peace in the pacific. That, you cannot guarantee. But you can promise it either way.
And then promise half the energy price. That you can do and its easy by investing on other energy types than Fossil Fuel.
And while you are at it, promise a domestic supply industry chain for your industries and so, more jobs. No more sending your ore to China on being processed. Process your own! (and then substitute this trade with buying solar panels and windmills in from there to make good relations with them). Say that you are making the Australia a raw material, rare earth, tantalum, mining, and processing giant. And a critical supply hub for US and EU!
Domestic Energy. Domestic Industry Chain. Domestic Birth Rite, on the rise!
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