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Re:US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further ... by Andre_Wanglin on Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:48PM (#17094868)
In a debt-based growth-dependent (to repay ever the increasing debts) economy, it crashes everything. Turns out assuming infinite growth does not produce a stable civilization. This is why there are concomitantly erstwhile calls for people to both reduce their "footprint" by not reproducing and also that immigration is crucial to every (western) society's survival.
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Re:US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further ... by iandanforth on Thursday May 17, 2018 @04:54PM (#17095650)
Do you know of any good example steady state economies for contrast?
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Re:US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further ... by Andre_Wanglin on Thursday May 17, 2018 @08:13PM (#17097488)
Why does criticizing an impossible assumption put the onus on me to identify economies that do not make that assumption or to envision what such a state of things might look like? Is it not sufficient to refrain from obvious error?
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Re:US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further ... by iandanforth on Thursday May 17, 2018 @11:12PM (#17098396)
That wasn't criticism, just curiosity. I'd like to have such an example to refer to and thought you might have one.
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Re:US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further ... by InitialLastName on Friday May 18, 2018 @03:52PM (#17104459)
Unfortunately, the exponential-growth economies ate them all.
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Re:US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further ... by magduf on Friday May 18, 2018 @08:35AM (#17100898)
If there are any, they're probably in ancient societies, and as such are probably poorly understood now.
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