> Honest question: who benefits from population growth besides developers? Honest answer: next generation of retirees / older people. They need young people in

> Honest question: who benefits from population growth besides developers? Honest answer: next generation of retirees / older people. They need young people in multiple ways - 1. to sustain welfare (which is pay-as-you-go universally), 2. production of food / entertainment / stuff, 3. services If you think automation is going to solve that, just look at who were "essential service workers"[1] in Covid where governments had to make exceptions even in the early days of pandemic when things were at their scariest. All those are essential functions for the society. Who is going to handle all of that when each next generation is only 35% of the previous generation's size (with a TFR of 0.7)? [1] One example: https://covid19.ca.gov/essential-workforce/ https://covid19.ca.gov/essential-workforce/