in dire situations
That’s just repeating the assumption that’s being questioned.
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bss03@infosec.pub 3 weeks agoI don’t think it is shrinking globally, yet. But, some countries (e.g. South Korea) are in dire situations due to shrinking and aging population already.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Might be bad now but it leads to a better future. Infinite growth was always impossible, this is just the result of decades of mismanagement.
bss03@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
The future for S. Korea looks bleak, not better.
I agree that infinite growth was always impossible, but in some countries birth rate is well below replacement rate (if they matched, population would be stable, not growing), and in many birth rate + immigration rate is also below replacement rate – we are failing not at growth, but “mere” stability.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Idgaf about replacement rate. I don’t want the old to be replaced. I want the economy to get smaller and for the wealth to be better distributed.
bss03@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Smaller economy is fine, I guess – tho deflation has certainly caused problems in the past. Better distributed wealth is a shared goal. Depopulation, and other forms of Degrowth, are largely driven by eugenicist ideas and are neither necessary nor desirable: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8vkUY93i8
khaleer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
But it’s mostly caused by social issues, imo it is nowhere near being a real problem
bss03@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I agree with your premise, but I don’t think it implies your conclusion, which I disagree with.