It depends on your size. For small-scale manufacturing - yes. For operations at the size of Apple, the whole supply chain is known and understood, and usually every component is custom-designed just for them.
Why not just disallow free porn? Require everything available in the UK to be paid, for at least $1, via credit card. This will exclude children most simply.
Limiting any one country to 15% of the visa intake would be great for actual diversity. Requiring that a minimum of 51% of all H1B visas be given to women, from all countries, would truly help with gender diversity.
Indian hiring managers have a history of illegally discriminating against non-Indian job applicants. This change would help bring an end to that.
Its a cultural issue. There are a lot of poor countries in Europe and East Asia. Why don't they have a lot of children?
Why do women from Africa and the Middle East, who are given permanent refuge and full material support, still have such high numbers of children?
Dare I say it: I think its also an IQ issue. Deciding to focus and invest in just one or two children takes planning and forethought. For whatever reason (environmental, genetic) some people do not have those capabilities.
Democratic Republic of the Congo: 81m, Articles: 0
Iceland produces as much science as Pakistan, a country 656x bigger.
Pakistan CO2 output: 1t per person.
Iceland CO2 output 12t per person.
USA: 15t per person
Yes, the average Westerner probably uses 10x the resources of the average person in the 3rd world. But the scientific outputs are hundreds of times bigger.
We should be saying to countries like India, Pakistan, Congo: you are destroying your environment, for the sake of what? What are you contributing to humanity to justify your use of limited resources?
As the population in poor countries increase, their challenges will only worsen. Countries like Pakistan and India have taken advantage of science and technology developed in the West to reach their current populations. Given that we are using the Earth's resources so much more productively, we have a right to instruct the rest of the world how to manage itself.
India is not our Civilization. I'm presuming you're either in America or Europe, or heavily influenced by their culture.
India's chief problem is overpopulation. There are simply too many people to provide water to. The country needs an urgent population program encouraging poorer families to have one or zero children. The same things are working in Bangladesh.
Excessive taxes and expensive housing. In much of Europe it is simply impossible to buy a house on a single income, if you obey 100% of tax laws. These taxes are used to pay for the elderly, their welfare (pensions) and healthcare.
If you are in the US you may not appreciate how heavy the tax burden is in Europe. It varies by country but its normally something like: 30% payroll tax paid by employer. 30% income tax paid by you. 20% sales tax paid by you. Then, very expensive housing due to the high population densities and limited room to expand.
Additionally in Europe, many parents want their children to be educated in English, however the language of instruction is usually the local language. This is partly why the migrant stream into the Anglosphere is so high. The alternative are private international schools, which are hideously expensive.
Global population growth is really just African and West Asian population growth. These regions are marked by ideologies or interpretations of it that are hostile to women, and poor infrastructure. They will also be the worst affected by climate change due to their geographic position and reliance on agriculture.
Unfortunately fertility rates in these countries are falling too slowly. In Egypt, approaching 100m people and affected by water shortages and overpopulation, the fertility rate is increasing.
We need to shift 100% of our foreign aid to education, contraception and abortion for women. Whilst some women and men choose to have an excess of children, many women simply lack access to contraception.
If global conditions and the climate worsen, we may need to consider more assertive measures: $1000 cash for every male under 25 and with fewer than 1 child willing to accept a vasectomy, for example.
"Have you seen the Muslims with their turbans and their djellabas (traditional, hooded, long wool coats)? You can see that they are not French. Try and integrate oil and vinegar. Shake the bottle. After a moment they separate again. The Arabs are Arabs, the French are French. Do you think that the French can absorb ten million Muslims who will tomorrow be twenty million and after tomorrow forty? If we carry out integration, if all the Berbers and Arabs of Algeria were regarded as French, how would one stop them coming to settle on the mainland where the standard of living is so much higher? My village would no longer be called Colombey-les-deux-Eglises [the two churches] but Colombey-the-two-mosques."
Other countries can adopt English as an additional official language, and allow children to be educated with English as the language of instruction.
This would be particularly advantageous in Europe, where the population of many smaller countries with their own language is falling. It would also attract inter-EU migrants.
The problem is that jobs are over, but we are still taxed the old fashioned way - mostly to pay for the healthcare and pensions of baby boomers who had steady careers and cheap housing.
Healthcare and pensions make up 66% of the US Federal Budget. Its a similiar case in most other Western countries. If we could somehow find a way to relieve ourselves of that burden, taxes on labour could be much lower and life significantly better.
I think this is partly why we've seen such a huge boom in freelancing. Its much easier to optimise your taxes that way, instead of working for a company.
Teens watch Youtube more than TV. Youtube has been far more censorious and disregarding of Free Speech than anything the Australian Government has done.
I've lived in countries with extremely liberal alcohol laws: low taxes, liberal advertising, 24/7 availability, drinking allowed on the street.
I've lived in others where Alcohol advertising is banned, availability is limited to Government-run stores at certain times, and the taxes are very high.
Binge drinking and general abuse seemed to be much higher in the latter. Particularly people seemed to get drunk before leaving the house, or used drugs, since both were cheaper than buying alcohol at a venue.
If anything is going to be restricted in the form of tax or advertising, hard spirits should bear the brunt instead of beer and wine. It might also make sense to loosen up taxes at licensed venues, which are controlled environments with trained bartenders and security.