Re:Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertilit...
by rowanajmarshall on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @09:32PM
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> In a shrinking population, are individual people worse off
Yes.
A shrinking population means an ever-smaller number of workers need to support increasing numbers of retirees.
If you can work that out, then you've still got a small pool of workers producing goods for a large, mostly economically-inactive population, which means inflation and plenty of it.
Yes.
A shrinking population means an ever-smaller number of workers need to support increasing numbers of retirees.
If you can work that out, then you've still got a small pool of workers producing goods for a large, mostly economically-inactive population, which means inflation and plenty of it.