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Given recent trends, the US will run headlong into the problem of political collapse long before China runs into a demographic collapse.
by vkou 2y ago
Given recent trends, the US will run headlong into the problem of political collapse long before China runs into a demographic collapse.
- thworp 2y agoThat problem is also ever-present for China. States like China never look like they are about to collapse until they do.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoThat's true of all states. The collapse only sets in when enough people start believing it's about to happen - and once this threshold is crossed, it happens in an instant.