• Overzeetop
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      202 years ago

      Indeed. There are too many humans by at least one order of magnitude. The only reason we need population growth is to perpetuate the capitalistic ponzi scheme government and corporations are running.

    • @Pregnenolone@lemmy.world
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      32 years ago

      Because the age imbalance will be fundamentally crippling to everything we understand about economics. Basically the only young people left in 50 years will be working only to sustain the older population, or old people will be forced to work until they’re much much older.

      • Willard Herman
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        12 years ago

        Or, we can eat bitterness. Sure, why not? We have no freewill anyway.

      • @jaschen@lemm.ee
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        32 years ago

        It’s sorta misleading. The story is about China. We here in Taiwan don’t have a birthrate problem.

  • @Smacks@lemmy.world
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    92 years ago

    The richer the country, the less children are born per-household. The one-child policy couldn’t have helped either

    • @tintory@lemm.eeOP
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      42 years ago

      Japan vs Taiwan France vs Poland Czech vs Hungary

      There are so many exceptions to that rule it’s crazy