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Falling population leads to cheaper housing, higher wages, less congestion for government services and infrastructure. More affordable housing is a major facto
by ArkanExplorer 6y ago
Falling population leads to cheaper housing, higher wages, less congestion for government services and infrastructure.
More affordable housing is a major factor in fertility rates, so eventually the population just finds a stable equilibrium.
Increasing population leads to the opposite - the elites are the ones pushing for mass-immigration, since they benefit from rising land prices and lower wages.
- BrianOnHN 6y ago"A stable equilibrium" might as well read stagnation. How do you suppose we incentive competition in stagnation?
- PeterisP 6y agoProsperity IMHO means a growth in per-capita wealth. On the other hands, "the elites" may prefer a growth in total wealth (since part of that growth accumulates to them) through a population increase even if it comes at the cost of decrease in per-capita wealth for the actual society.