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The real risk is the TFR never rises and population drops until complex society cannot be maintained. Or perhaps some weird minority with higher TFR takes over

by pfdietz 8mo ago

The real risk is the TFR never rises and population drops until complex society cannot be maintained. Or perhaps some weird minority with higher TFR takes over the world, what I call the "Amish Scenario".

projektfu 8mo ago
Are you talking mainly about demographics? Like not enough working age people and too many older people?
- pfdietz 8mo ago
  Yes, and also that if the population becomes small enough it becomes impossible to sustain an industrial society due to lack of scale.
  - projektfu 8mo ago
    Isn't most of industrial society really just trying to deal with the problems of having to sustain so many people?