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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This is practically a credit card problem – they want to pay for today’s issues by expecting income in the future. So all of our social programs financial models are based on growth.
We could easily prevent this by forecasting flat or a decrease -and once ( or if) the funding in reserve gets too high everyone gets a payout – but people hate taxes – and that is an easy political platform to run on.
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