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The amount of people your age is only going down with time. (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
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Also: The people don't change. The pool of people your age that you could meet doesn't change, it only gets smaller.

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[โ€“] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That seems pretty obvious

What's less obvious is the decrease in population growth. People are having less kids which means that at some point there will be more older people than younger people and that the infrastructure will be overbuilt.

[โ€“] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

It does seem obvious, but you kinda don't realise it. Seems like I'm not the only one thinking like that.

I think in practice, the demographic shift is more noticeable than this.