But with stable or falling populations, economic stagnation, such as that which afflicted Japan for a decade, limits opportunities to profit. And establishment think tanks worry about how to fund Social Security without taxing the rich.
they use words like crisis, panic, catastrophe, etc. – it’s all to scare people into thinking the world is going to implode unless everyone starts furiously having babies. the world isn’t going to implode from fewer babies. profits will go down. that’s it.
edit: also-- “shrinking tax base”–fuck that. tax the fucking rich
Imma need a source on that one. But yeah, a shrinking tax base and aging population is bad mojo.
i don’t know about “scientific” studies about coporate panic, but there’s plenty of ink spilt
https://convergencemag.com/articles/whos-afraid-of-the-lower-birth-rate/
LOL
https://medium.com/@julian.frazier.phd/boomers-panic-as-birth-rates-continue-to-decline-2f2bd1fabcae
https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/features/population-panic-low-birth-rates-fdi/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/30/the-baby-bust-how-britains-falling-birthrate-is-creating-alarm-in-the-economy
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/05/21/can-the-rich-world-escape-its-baby-crisis
they use words like crisis, panic, catastrophe, etc. – it’s all to scare people into thinking the world is going to implode unless everyone starts furiously having babies. the world isn’t going to implode from fewer babies. profits will go down. that’s it.
edit: also-- “shrinking tax base”–fuck that. tax the fucking rich