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>Less demographically challenged countries are not a renewable resource. At the moment, poor people who are prepared to migrate to richer countries to get a ch

• pharke 6y ago
  I meant that the largest (by population) countries with high birthrates are quickly entering the same demographic situation as mentioned in the article. They are being closely followed by another host of countries as rapid industrialization/modernization moves on down the line. The pool of people willing to migrate for economic reasons is shrinking. Meanwhile, we are not much closer to solving the problems that cheap overseas labour and cheap imported labour were keeping at bay. That curse even seems to be passing on to the countries where we used to draw our labour from meaning that we are now competing with them for immigrants, migrant workers, and outsourced labour. It's a fiendish game of musical chairs.