What News is saying this?
Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
When the population was predicted to explode into the 21st century, the news said this was a big problem. Now the population is expected to gradually decline. The news is saying this is a big problem.
Sly2@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 16 hours ago
The Onion of course, onionguy!
Sly2@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
That can’t be true, everything the onion publishes, goes through me first, I would’ve seen that, trust me, I’m an expert. So who is spreading this?
qarbone@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Not all news, per se, but I do recall seeing reporting on how a good handful of countries are trying to combat falling birth rates. Like in Far East and Far North countries.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
They are problems for different reasons
rumba@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Booms have market opportunity, and busts have market opportunity.
That said, having too many people to do the work is a lot less dangerous than not enough people to do the work.
The bust comes with a high risk of a total economic collapse. Those houses get cheap, but food, sanitary, and energy security are at risk. Living in a rotting infrastructure is very different than living in an expanding but underdeveloped infrastructure.
Leveling out or a slow population decline would be good in some scenarios. If we’re going from 2.5:1 down to 0.25:1, you’ll end up with another boomer wave, pissed off at the government, ripe for scenarios that make today’s problems seem like an annoying party.
FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Both can be a problem