Btw, if you're interested in this weird demographic stuff, there's a good book coming out soon: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/After-the-Spike/Dean-Spears/9781668057339
Short version: most people's intuitions about what's happening, whether it should change, how fast it'll change, how to change it... are wrong.
Short version: most people's intuitions about what's happening, whether it should change, how fast it'll change, how to change it... are wrong.
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Emptying-out worlds weren't unknown, but it was due to some kind of catastrophe.
There are certainly challenges to falling population but our current problems are almost entirely about greed and there's no sign of that changing.