When rights were earned and not demanded

Subject: When rights were earned and not demanded.

How do we regain balance in this, population explosion versus the availability of jobs to obtain the money to live by.
In what used to be called the Third World the surge in population was coped with by natural wastage. High childhood mortality, swathing cuts in the life span of people through disease and high rates of violence and yet women continue to have babies either willingly or unwillingly. The issues which the Western woman consider such as affordability is not on the radar of a woman in Bangladesh. As the exponential growth in fertile girls makes the matter exponentially worse, year on year it seems that as we globalise our thinking and values, making the assumptions we make in the West fit the conditions in the Third World, the humanitarian efforts we make to head off the ravages of disease also make matters worse.
In the West jobs are being created to fit the growing workforce but often these jobs are consumerist in the sense they fit the service industry rather than manufacturing.

Consumers, you and I have not seen any growth in earnings for over eight years now which is unprecedented in recent times. As the disposable income shrinks then the consumer business becomes unsustainable. Credit in the form of credit card loans has sustained and falsified the merry go round of the the western capitalistic experiment. Printing money with no asset security, in effect devaluation your currency on a monthly basis to feed the debt monster, now in the trillions, is so far from the Keynesian ideal of managed budgets and centrally controlled economic stimulus. Everyone is holding their breath, afraid to look under the bed to see what sort of bogieman is there.

Population control, something in the water perhaps (like the armed forces used to have in their tea) flys against our human rights. But what our these human rights.
Are they a religious concept since god seems to bring enough disaster and pestilence on our heads for it to be ruled out as a religious right.
Is it a philosophical right something reasoned by individuals for and on behalf of individuals. A concept born of a legal construct to protect people as citizens.
Is it a natural construct, a piece of common sense which we all pride ourselves upon.
What ever it's foundation it seems to be leading us into to some strange places.
It often fly's against the civic understanding of what is best. It makes claims for individuality which can only be sustained by the collective at a cost and sometimes against the grain of what the civic feels happy with. It has the power of personal experience and a story line which is hard to resist but has little or no actual resonance in the collectives experience of the population as a whole but somehow it trumps the general public's concern with an appeal to the 'individual's right'.
The world is under the spotlight. Can it survive. Will population growth outstrip our ability to clothe and feed, not in the form of the abject poverty of the Untouchables in India or the drought prone misery of people living in Somalia. Not even the squallar of the poor in the inner cities of the north of England or in the dying shells of cities such as Detroit which hold in their name an industrial past in America.
Can we, as the robots gobble up more and more of the available work find a way to educate our children not to follow their fathers down the mine but to reinvest in the idea of how to do with less. Of how banal consumerism is, how we tie ourselves in a knot of debt repayment, two and three jobs, and never ending worry.
It's only 60 years ago when I was growing up that credit was a dirty word. When people who couldn't afford something were content to be without both the purchase and the debt. When a household had a single breadwinner and mothers if they so desired could concentrate on nurturing their young.
When 'rights' were earned and not demanded.