• jerkface
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    1 year ago

    So what is wrong with a declining population, anyway?

    • Sami@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      An increasingly aging population. Less money from taxation to fund services, decreasing standards of living, more people dependent on a decreasing number of income earners, being in a nursing home without anyone available to care for you etc

      A death spiral unless we can somehow manage to grow economically to compensate but even then the social outcomes arent great either.