U.S. population growth is slowing down. Here's why that's a bad thing

Re:U.S. population growth is slowing down. Here's why that's... by jollybean on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:37AM (#27037413)

"Unfortunately, a sustained population loss would be incompatible with economic growth."

This is a pretty hefty dose of globalist neoliberalism right there.

I think we may want to put question marks around 'rapidly declining population' as 'a problem to consider' (In Japan it's decline in birth, Hungary it's emigration) with existential considerations and consequences.

But the 'warm bodies is growth' mentality which is actually part and parcel of the industrial revolution ... needs to be rethought.

US, Canada, Australia, and Brazil etc. need to think about this a little more.

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Re:U.S. population growth is slowing down. Here's why that's... by JPKab on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:08AM (#27037750)

I don't disagree with you at all but unfortunately without population growth the social safety net in most industrialized countries would completely collapse.

Imagine what it would look like for a politician to try to tell the American public that social security needs to be radically reformed and restructured.

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Re:U.S. population growth is slowing down. Here's why that's... by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:23AM (#27037906)

>I don't disagree with you at all but unfortunately without population growth the social safety net in most industrialized countries would completely collapse.

It hasn't in Japan.

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Re:U.S. population growth is slowing down. Here's why that's... by anm89 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:03AM (#27038361)

Sure Japan has not collapsed, the US wouldnt either however,

A) Japan's pension, ss, medical liabilities per person are much smaller than what the US has created.

B) I wouldnt call the Japanese economy a success story over the last 20 years. They are just sliding by

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