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Capitalism's Overlooked Contradiction: Wealth and Demographic Decline (americanaffairsjournal.org)
3 points by Ambolia 919 days ago
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"And so it seems that Marx’s insight was fundamentally right: in the long term, if left unchecked, capitalism will undermine itself."

... and communism will undermine itself even more quickly.

I would have loved to been a fly on a wall in China during high level CCP debates on how dangerous it would be to let women have more than 1 child before they moved to 2 (and now 3).