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What's an ideal rate of population decline?

• nerpderp82 4y ago
  What do you think a good metric would be? What are the targets, what are the goals. Remember, we aren't talking about ending anyone's life, just reducing the number of people produced.
  • wolpoli 4y ago
    I hope that civil society isn't destabilized in the process; sectors of the economy do not disappear overnight leaving people to retrain or into early retirement. The country should also remain competitive with others in terms of cultural, economic and military power.
    • nerpderp82 4y ago
      > economy do not disappear overnight Isn't the danger is that there are not enough workers to aide an aging population at the same time there aren't enough consumers to feed growth and manufacturing changes that designed to turn out vast quantities of goods? A labor/consumption imbalance. It would seem that we would need to make our manufacturing more elastic, retooling existing factories to be more dynamic in what and how they produce goods. Would be a good thing in general.