It just seems like we could adjust our economy to compensate for a shrinking population. The answer of paying your working population more seems so much easier trying to get people to have kids they don’t want. It would also slow the population shrink by making children more affordable, but a smaller population seems far more sustainable than an ever growing one and a shrinking one seems like it should decrease suffering with the resources being less in demand.
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The only thing that keeps an economy afloat is a body of productive workers willing to back up the currency. The only reason you’d have faith in a currency’s future is if there will always be more new workers to replace the old ones, increasing output and productivity.
If a country is depopulating, what’s giving the currency value? Would YOU invest in a currency that is losing support and isn’t projected to match or exceed its current economy?
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