• Bad_Ideas_In_Bulk
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    8 hours ago

    The demograpic downturn started decades before that, but in the west it was (and to some extent still is) hidden by immigration.

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      8 hours ago

      You’re obfuscating: It’s been well documented that the availability of resources is inversely correlated to birthrates. We’ve had as much dropoff since the phone as we did since the industrial revolution. You’re calling two different rates of drop the same because they’re both drops; that’s not how math works.