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Anon isn't worried about population decline (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 days ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 49 points 2 days ago (14 children)

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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    What News is saying this?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    The rotting infrastructure problem is made a lot worse by urban sprawl

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    What happens in the rural areas when the need for grocery stores halves, all the walmarts pull out, we have to re-invent logistics. I expect people will either have to go back to making everything themselves, or they'll have to bunch back together around resources.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    Yeah. But people won't change willingly. A lot of the suburbs around my city are pretty rich areas. I don't expect those people to willingly move to the denser inner city anytime soon. More likely they'll petition city hall to keep their subdivisions running until the city goes bankrupt from the financial burden of supporting a subdivision that does not bring in enough property taxes to support itself

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