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Re:"Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960) by ywvcbk on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:54AM (#50483532)
The issue is not so much the decreasing population but that fact that its aging too fast and the proportion of productive working age people will continue to shrink.

> But we can!

Unless we get robots to replace nurses etc. in retirement homes no we can't...

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Re:"Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960) by switchbak on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:24PM (#50486678)
I don't understand the downvotes on this one - it's not so much the size of the population as it is the lopsided nature of it.

Too many kids - big problems.

Too many folks in retirement homes - bigger problems.

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