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This will keep getting worse if birth rates remain low. It’s one of the biggest negative social consequences from a far below replacement rate birth rate. Immig
by api 1y ago
This will keep getting worse if birth rates remain low. It’s one of the biggest negative social consequences from a far below replacement rate birth rate. Immigration can make up some of it but there are limits to immigration rate before it causes other problems and provokes a generally very right wing populist backlash.
- brailsafe 1y agoIt's also a circular negative feedback loop until it gets balanced out. Imo, below replacement birthrates can be thought of as "getting worse", but they're skewed by a narrow window of immense prosperity and wealth that was basically fabricated, and could thus be the rebalancing, of governments let them. Less prosperity for a whole generation of people that effectively make up the future market for overvalued static assets, means there is hypothetically a ceiling, likewise if the population is only inflated by economically low-value immigration; if systems are working,(they're not) then there simply won't be enough domestic money flowing around to keep supporting that type of hockey stick growth. That's my theory anyway