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Originally Posted by opendoor
It's not really something anyone built, it's really more just demographics. As societies get richer, people tend to have fewer kids which results in uneven demographic distributions.
We should be thankful that we live in a country that has the ability to alleviate that through immigration. Places like Japan, Russia, and China are all in a pretty precarious long-term position with their demographics and the fact that they have historically had little immigration.
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But in the end more people just means things getting more expensive, more crowded, and more resources being consumed that the planet can't handle. It's a global issue, but the root of it is economic systems that only really function in growth environments. At some point we need to figure out how to keep things working at a steady state.