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Re:Third of Japan's 18-year-olds women may never have childr... by stephc_int13 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:17AM (#37338533)
Having a huge population is extremely beneficial for leaders and for the so-called elite that profit from the pyramidal effect.

But at the average individual level, I am not so sure.

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Re:Third of Japan's 18-year-olds women may never have childr... by xyzzy4747 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:25AM (#37338680)
You need a large population to support big industries and it helps tech innovation as well.
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Re:Third of Japan's 18-year-olds women may never have childr... by stephc_int13 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:48AM (#37339084)
Taiwan population is not that large (23M), and yet they can support a pretty convincing semiconductor industry.

I agree that we need a reasonable amount of people to build and maintain large projects, millions, not billions.

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Re:Third of Japan's 18-year-olds women may never have childr... by xyzzy4747 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @03:26PM (#37342433)
They sell to a much larger population. If they could only sell to themselves they wouldn't have built such a large industry.
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Re:Third of Japan's 18-year-olds women may never have childr... by PaulHoule on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:55AM (#37350880)
If there are a lot of working people when you retire it is easy to pay for your retirement, both in the sense that they can pay taxes and in the sense that the growing economy makes the stock market grow up which makes private defined benefit or defined contribution plans work better. Billionaires benefit from it even more than you but you do benefit from it.
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