It’s pretty much undeniable given all the data that particularly in Western countries, but also in China and Japan, the population is about to collapse. It’s a natural part of a cycle of population growth and decline. Even though we have more than enough food to keep on growing, people can predict the overall cost of having kids, and have decided that they just can’t afford to pay that right now. As a result, we do have something of an economic boom in the short term, but in the long term expense of a population collapse.
That’s not such a bad thing. When the population shrinks, the importance of individual people rises, and the world tends to become more egalitarian. As the number of people increase, and the value of individuals tends to drop, leading to decrease in the value of individuals. If the future plays out the way that history did, we will probably see our kids or our grandkids living in a golden age where individuals have unprecedented Rights and freedoms because they’re so few of them.
It’s pretty much undeniable given all the data that particularly in Western countries, but also in China and Japan, the population is about to collapse. It’s a natural part of a cycle of population growth and decline. Even though we have more than enough food to keep on growing, people can predict the overall cost of having kids, and have decided that they just can’t afford to pay that right now. As a result, we do have something of an economic boom in the short term, but in the long term expense of a population collapse.
That’s not such a bad thing. When the population shrinks, the importance of individual people rises, and the world tends to become more egalitarian. As the number of people increase, and the value of individuals tends to drop, leading to decrease in the value of individuals. If the future plays out the way that history did, we will probably see our kids or our grandkids living in a golden age where individuals have unprecedented Rights and freedoms because they’re so few of them.