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If you think falling birthrates are "fake issues" then you have no idea what you're talking about and haven't done a smidgen of research on the topic. The West
by nathanaldensr 3y ago
If you think falling birthrates are "fake issues" then you have no idea what you're talking about and haven't done a smidgen of research on the topic. The West relies on debt-fueled economies that require ever-increasing GDP. This is in direct opposition to shrinking prime-age workforces. I'm not going to go much more into this here as the information is trivially available to anyone online.
- fuzzfactor 3y ago>We don't need more people in the world, there's enough. True. But beyond that, this has always been true at any point in the history and prehistory of mankind. >The West relies on debt-fueled economies that require ever-increasing GDP. Also equally true, but that only goes back as far as the history of the "West" alone. Unless you also want to include all the other intervals and regions where debt-fueled economies have come & gone since before prehistory, but that still doesn't quite make it true at any point in history. No big deal. Equally true. But two true things do not have to make equal sense, or even make sense at all sometimes.
- theironhammer 3y agoWhat about Japan? Aren't they doing ok? Sure there's issues with not enough people to look after the old folks but I haven't heard any rhetoric like we do in the Anglosphere. Demographic Apocalypse seems largely a scare tactic by neoliberal/neocons to distract from the real reason: Immigration is to suppress wage demands.