We don't have to have "so few people on earth we are stuck". As the BBC article[1] says China could go from having 100 workers supporting 20 elderly people to 1

We don't have to have "so few people on earth we are stuck". As the BBC article[1] says China could go from having 100 workers supporting 20 elderly people to 100 workers supporting 120 elderly people. So workers have to support 6x as many old people. It's this inversion that I think he's worried about, more than running out of people whole sale. [1] - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220531-why-chinas-population-is-shrinking https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220531-why-chinas-popul...