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The problem is it’s not gradual. South Korea at their current rate would all be dead within a century.
by huytersd 3y ago
The problem is it’s not gradual. South Korea at their current rate would all be dead within a century.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoThat is a choice to be made. Some people choose to be childfree out of preference, some out of economics, work/life balance, structural support. Even governments like South Korea, who have sunk billions into pro natalist policies, can’t turn around the total fertility rate. The population decline is inevitable, better to get out in front of preparing for it now while there is enough aggregate productivity through healthy working age people, vs when this “light cone” perpetually shrinks and there is less and less people to put forth effort into needed physical work. The world will be fine with less people.