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.
In: 1173
People produce the demand for resources, but people also produce the supply of resources.
It’s not so much a question of total numbers but of demographics. A lot of people were born about 70 years ago and are still alive because of medicine and other advancements. After that, birth rates dropped off and never fully recovered. Many of them aren’t producing resources anymore, but they still consume resources. So we need to make sure that enough resources are produced for them to consume.
So if we’re going to start managing population numbers, it makes sense to either encourage having more children who will grow up to be productive and useful, or only let people into your country who seem like they would contribute positively to the whole resource situation.
Latest Answers