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

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    As population numbers fall, we won’t have people that can extract those resources.

    We won’t have people to defend global trade routes. We’re seeing this already. The mighty US navy can’t prevent Iran from using cheap drones to choke the world of oil. Oil is used to make everything, and already there’s barely enough to go around.

    Countries will enter unrest and devolve.

    The next 25 years are going to be really bad.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    25 years isn't that long. If that's all it takes to transition to a static model, I take that deal any day of the week. The longer we predicate everything on growth, the worse transition gets.

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