babe wake up daily birth rate thread etc.. But yeah. Top 5 important issue right now. The writing is on the wall. If liberals don’t figure this out the fascists will.
Abell379 on
I don’t think the title is very correct. While population growth seems like it will stagnate by 2060 or 2070, that doesn’t mean living standards will *necessarily* decline. Population growth has been a strong driver of economic growth, but it is not the only factor.
It means that more and more resources will go to support an aging population. In the US at least, there needs to be a serious effort (not likely to happen soon) to evaluate how we are going to fund mandatory expenditures in the future, along with the pending gap in Social Security funding in the next 10 years.
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Don’t worry, democrats can fight this and improve living standards by simply being more populist 💖 if we just be more 💕populist💕 and embrace policy like tariffs, immigration restrictions, rent control, unearned income taxes, banning foreigners from owning real estate, taxing vacant housing units, banning gmos and pesticides, forcing new housing developments to reserve a percentage of units for low income people, and so on, things will get better don’t worry 🥰
Meh. We’re about to have a massive automation boom. You can’t simultaneously be worried about population growth stagnation and AI taking over everything. The trends will likely both offset
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babe wake up daily birth rate thread etc.. But yeah. Top 5 important issue right now. The writing is on the wall. If liberals don’t figure this out the fascists will.
I don’t think the title is very correct. While population growth seems like it will stagnate by 2060 or 2070, that doesn’t mean living standards will *necessarily* decline. Population growth has been a strong driver of economic growth, but it is not the only factor.
It means that more and more resources will go to support an aging population. In the US at least, there needs to be a serious effort (not likely to happen soon) to evaluate how we are going to fund mandatory expenditures in the future, along with the pending gap in Social Security funding in the next 10 years.
Don’t worry, democrats can fight this and improve living standards by simply being more populist 💖 if we just be more 💕populist💕 and embrace policy like tariffs, immigration restrictions, rent control, unearned income taxes, banning foreigners from owning real estate, taxing vacant housing units, banning gmos and pesticides, forcing new housing developments to reserve a percentage of units for low income people, and so on, things will get better don’t worry 🥰
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Meh. We’re about to have a massive automation boom. You can’t simultaneously be worried about population growth stagnation and AI taking over everything. The trends will likely both offset
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