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growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell

• spamizbad 8y ago
  That's fine, but now you need a way to cope with an outsized elderly population. Not just funding their benefits, but also providing them care, etc. Without population growth, this becomes an extremely expensive situation.
  • corysama 8y ago
    Because of global urbanization, that's a problem the whole world is going to have soon enough. Japan is leading the way and the US is slowly following. But, the trend is that in a hundred years the entire planet will be having sub-replacement birthrate. Yay. The population explosion crisis has accidentally been averted. Oops. Now we have the opposite crisis to deal with instead. Might as well start figuring it out early.