> if everybody in a country just stopped having children, that country would look, from an economic point of view, excellent for at least a couple of decades.

> if everybody in a country just stopped having children, that country would look, from an economic point of view, excellent for at least a couple of decades. There's even a name for this: the demographic dividend. It's the demographic capital gains tax that comes afterwards that bites hard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_dividend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_dividend