The argument I hear is that there will be less people to take care of the population. Wouldn’t the problem take care of itself once the older population dies off?
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> Wouldn’t the problem take care of itself once the older population dies off?
Yes. The problem with that is, people rather like to live, and doing nothing about the problem will make old people die sooner.
We could handle a shrinking population without condemning old people to death, but it would require us to rearrange our society in a sensible way. We’d need to prioritize people’s survival and wellbeing over luxuries, reduce unnecessary expenses, maybe even take wealth from billionaires until they are mere multi-millionaires. We’d need to increase the number of people going into essential fields and cut back on other things, ideally the things that make the world a worse place.
This would mean that rich people don’t get rich as quickly at a minimum, maybe that they become somewhat less rich. So it’s clearly impossible.
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