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by noosphr 8 days ago
This is a loss for everyone expecting to become anything but soyoent in their reteriment.

An inverted population either kills the old or enslaves the young.

We reached peak baby 5 years ago. There is a still a path to steady state population but that is closing fast.

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Governments need population growth to maintain economic growth - steady state population is very much against economic growth - the population must grow for the good of the economy and therefore the country.
Why must the economy grow? What’s wrong with a steady state economy?