if productivity keeps going up so much, we do we still need to keep growing the population?

Question

if productivity keeps going up so much, we do we still need to keep growing the population?

In: Economics

Answer 1

Because the system requires growth. Its not made to be stablez if next year there isn’t more revenue, more taxpayers, more workers, then there won’t be enough resources to pay for all the people aging, or opting out of the workforce.