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Thing is, GDP is a lousy measure of growth. Japan is undergoing a contraction and fossilization of its social structure. Interestingly enough, the same is happ
by AstralStorm 4y ago
Thing is, GDP is a lousy measure of growth. Japan is undergoing a contraction and fossilization of its social structure.
Interestingly enough, the same is happening slowly in USA and UK, and then after a big space everywhere else. Note the anti-immigration and austerity rhetoric, where what is needed is a major social change, considering of some attempts to level the playing field and prevent the current corporate and political aristocracies from emerging again.
Aa for rural drain, it's been happening everywhere, mostly because for some reason we do not pay farmers enough, nor the systems we made allow even groups of then to be self sufficient.
- simonebrunozzi 4y agoUS and UK hugely benefit from massive immigration. They are going to grow their population, contrary to what is going to happen in most of the western world. From 2016 to 2060, the US is expected to grow by ~80M people [0], even though a big chunk of that growth (45%) will be for people who are 65 or older. [0]: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2020/demo/p25-1144.pdf https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
- BlargMcLarg 4y agoThe move to rural could be countered by spreading, modernizing and connecting smaller hubs. Companies don't want to spread, so people don't want to spread, so companies don't want to spread, repeat ad infinitum.