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But why does it need to be reversed?

We are at the same time experiencing all the challenges and consequences of depleting the planet of resources, a warming climate and shortages everywhere. Why can less people in a natural way not be part of the solution?

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You’ll need to kill people off at say 70. Healthcare meds increase dramatically when you get older and older, and that means more people needed to care. When the worker:dependence ratio increases you end up with people emigrating or care reducing.

That's where spreading the young population around via migration comes in, but people are racist and can't tolerate that.

In your solution you also wouldn't have to kill people off. They would die naturally due to a lack of healthcare.


Why would you have immigration in that scenario? Other countries would also lack people.

Other first world countries. The global population overall is still slightly increasing because 3rd world countries have plenty of children.

As for the why: because historically that has always been a solution to lacking specialized talent or simply not having enough hands to perform a massive task. You don't want to pay domestic labor, so bring in foreign labor. This time it's a general problem.


>why does it need to be reversed?

Because a major superpower dying out doesn't really benefit anyone except potential conquerors.




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