>But it seems like most of our problems are caused by overpopulation. That's too broad of a generalization and not true globally, some countries problems are e

>But it seems like most of our problems are caused by overpopulation. That's too broad of a generalization and not true globally, some countries problems are exactly because of underpopulation. The problem isn't homogeneous throughout the world. It's highly dependent on what populations you're talking about and their circumstances. >Fields like production, retail, maintenance, etc. would have less workers, but also proportionally less demand. In some developed countries where recently the birthrates hover very slightly to sometimes below replacement rates can lead to a whole hosts of problems. For example take into account age proportionality as a result of extremely low birthrates in Japan, an ever increasing older and retired population does not have enough younger labor to produce good/services for basic societal function. There's also problems of gender imbalances like in India or China also causing massive issues in the coming generations.