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Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by lokar on Thursday July 03, 2025 @10:51AM (#44455653)
What do you think your retirement savings represent? They are a claim on goods and services to be produced by a future generation. For that to work there has to be a future generation of sufficient productive capacity. If population declines faster then productivity increases the system will collapse.

Look at what is happening to South Korea.

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Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by hellojesus on Thursday July 03, 2025 @12:40PM (#44456857)
That is part of the risk one must take into account when investing. The same happens regardless of population; you must invest where you expect there to still exist market demand in the future.
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Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by lokar on Thursday July 03, 2025 @12:44PM (#44456912)
If the productive capacity of the economy declines your capital will be inflated away. Money is a social construct built on a stable or growing economy.
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Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by hellojesus on Thursday July 03, 2025 @01:10PM (#44457163)
The FED can target either interest rates or the money supply. It could very well adjust supply to meet a shrinking population pool. Otherwise post war losses of many able bodied men would inflate away economies.
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Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by lokar on Thursday July 03, 2025 @01:23PM (#44457272)
Either way you won’t be able to obtain the goods and services you saved for, there just won’t be enough of them.
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Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by hellojesus on Thursday July 03, 2025 @02:16PM (#44457782)
There could be. Our example hasn't considered productivity gains due to capital improvements or tech advancements. We may not need the same population to produce the samd product count in the future.
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