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>When a country has high fertility rates, their market naturally grows year by year. But that market, can't grow forever. Population can't grow forever. You w
by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>When a country has high fertility rates, their market naturally grows year by year.
But that market, can't grow forever. Population can't grow forever. You will hit the wall at one point unless you want your population living in cramped and impoverished conditions like in India. Is it bad they hit it now instead of 10-20 years down the line?
- thfuran 3y agoHitting a wall is one thing. Reversing back away from the wall is an altogether different issue.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoYou can't really convince people to plateau their procreation activities so that fertility rates stay perfectly balanced over time. Fertility is always ciclic. It either goes up when times are good, and goes down when times are bad. And good times don't last forever.
- somenameforme 3y agoHere's [1] a graph of US fertility since 1800. That trend doesn't look cyclic, at all. [1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033027/fertility-rate-us-1800-2020/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033027/fertility-rate-u...
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoWait for the next world war/big crash.
- somenameforme 3y agoBut there were plenty of other major wars and crashes. That brief boom phase only appeared after WW2. It seems fairly safe to say it was an aberration.