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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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I suspect reducing income inequality and increasing housing affordability and social supports would increase our domestic fertility rate.