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| The Baby Shortage Downed Toys ‘R' Us, And It's Coming For Our Entire Tax Base |
| 2018-04-17 |
| [The Federalist] It’s a terribly stubborn demographic truism: Somewhere close to 100 percent of babies never born will never become customers of your business. This is true of the more than 55 million American babies who never made it past the womb since abortion was legalized in 1973. It’s true of the untold millions who were never conceived because a potential mom and dad thought they had better things to do. Of course, there is an inestimable, inherent worth and dignity to every human life, but we cannot ignore the social significance at play here as well. These invaluable lives-never-realized are a whole lot of missing customers. Not good for business. Not good. Nor will they be paying into social security or pensions to provide your part when that time comes either. What if you’re in the toy business? Well then, this truism is super unfortunate seeing as your whole business model depends upon people called grandparents, aunts, uncles, and parents. Others outside of these four types of folks are just not likely to pass through your doors. So you want the population of these four categories not only stable, but growing. The common denominator between all these folks is babies. New, fresh-smelling little humans are what create grandparents, aunts, uncles and mothers and fathers. This is not a theoretical theorem. No one knows this better than the international toy giant Toys ’R’ Us and baby supplier Babies R Us. They recently got majorly T-boned at the intersection of "Need for Growing Customer Base Avenue" and "Declining Birth Rate Boulevard." Thus they are shuttering all of their U.S. stores. Putting it another way, Geoffrey the Giraffe had to be put down. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 #7 - yup, the management went into debt that their revenues could not support. End of story. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-04-17 23:50 |
| #7 This was all about private equity looting the company. Same with Sports Authority. The rest is sideshow. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2018-04-17 17:42 |
| #6 It's a two part problem. (1) Not enough babys were born to enter the workforce and pay those taxes (2) Too many Boomers retiring. I think we should hunt down the Population Bomb author and string him up for convincing a generation to not procreate. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-04-17 17:10 |
| #5 Is there anything a good meme can't do? https://www.news965.com/entertainment/ceo-mga-entertainment-makes-formal-offer-buy-toys/3gkmTiwXw0uuuFMZELt4wO/ . |
| Posted by: OregonGuy 2018-04-17 15:50 |
| #4 It doesn't help that our society teaches the young ones we have that not being productive (except for having fatherless kids), and living off of others' industry, is acceptable. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2018-04-17 14:57 |
| #3 Maybe if using the public schools wasn't equivalent to having your kids raised by the malevolent practicioners of a different religion, people would have more kids. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-04-17 12:33 |
| #2 If living and raising kids was less of a pain in the @$$, maybe folks would have more kids. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-04-17 12:03 |
| #1 They recently got majorly T-boned at the intersection of "Need for Growing Customer Base Avenue" and "Declining Birth Rate Boulevard. At the cross street of "Don't have money to spend on that sh1t any more." |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-04-17 11:32 |