Crazy to me that this is downvoted. It's the core truth of our debt based economic system. Our economic system will explode violently in a default cascade with

Crazy to me that this is downvoted. It's the core truth of our debt based economic system. Our economic system will explode violently in a default cascade without population growth or productivity growth and we haven't been able to figure out ways to consistently increase productivity, which is to say we need population growth to sustain our way of life. It's why deflation is the boogeyman. Deflation is basically a win in a society with zero debt. Deflation is a humanitarian crisis at 130% public debt to gdp and whatever ~300% total debt to gdp we are at. But population growth is a net loss for most of us. More plastic waste. More energy consumed and emissions created, more space taken up etc. There's already more than enough of us by any metric except the amount of gdp growth required to keep our economy running.