• kandoh@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    These fears over population collapse are the weirdest form of mass hysteria I’ve ever seen.

    • quackers@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Population collapse for the human race isn’t so much a problem, we’ll weather through it as a species. For an economy, population decline is very not good though. You need working age people to support the young and old, as well as everything else your taxes go to.

    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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      1 year ago

      The issue is that demographic collapse can and almost certainly will have devastating economic consequences for the countries facing it.