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Most economists think that population decline is tightly coupled with the economy. It may be rational in individual sense, but as a society, it is pretty much a

Most economists think that population decline is tightly coupled with the economy. It may be rational in individual sense, but as a society, it is pretty much a bad idea. I suggest further reading: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/03/27/the-economics-of-falling-populations https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/03/27/t... That said, overpopulation is also a problem. In a resource rich nation, it is never a problem.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> Most economists think that population decline is tightly coupled with the economy To be fair, what “mosts economists think” tends to have fairly weak empirical support on purely matters that are purely internal to the narrow sense of the economy, and it only gets worse on economic connections to broader social phenomena. (And that's not even counting overtly ideological schools of economics like Austrian economics, where beliefs aren't even in principal empirically grounded.) OTOH, there's a reasonably strong case to be made that reduced incentive for population growth is an effect of strong social saftey nets.