Inspired by a post I saw on AskReddit (which has now been removed). What is something you believe is growing because of young people?

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    It’s not going to be enough.

    Birth rates aren’t going to magically turn around, immigration isn’t going to magically fix it.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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      1 hour ago

      Ultimately, so what? What is the problem you are attempting to prevent? Declining population is not per se a problem.

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        44 minutes ago

        At scale, global instability leading to supply chain breakdown, leading to disruption of things we don’t think could be scarce like CPUs, medical equipment, defensive weaponry.

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          10 minutes ago

          But also, a surfeit of resources and wealth. We’ve seen global population crashes before and (aside from the mass death that predicated them) I understand that the aftermath was actually quite pleasant.

          If our system can’t support even a steady state population, it needs to fail. Constant growth is a ponzi scheme.