People living longer, governments with generous social spending end up with that spending swallowing up the budget as working age population shrinks, so without

People living longer, governments with generous social spending end up with that spending swallowing up the budget as working age population shrinks, so without a working age population increase less and less workers supporting more dependents. I mean, we all know non-negative increase eventually exceeds carrying capacity of planet, though that capacity has been bumped up a few times due to technology (cheap fossil fuels, green revolution, etc). The “easy” solution is to keep growth juiced and hope we’ll figure something out (technological or societal structural innovation) before we hit one of the hard limits. I’m a bit more interested to see what happens when the megacities exhaust their water supplies, which they are burning through at an amazing rate.