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It's a massive problem when you have an older population outnumbering a younger population. We have a system that is built and designed around a certain number of able-bodied workers supporting the structures that this labor is built on.
It doesn't even take very much to wreck economies and send nations into depressions or catastrophic collapse. Wartime in history has hurt small percentages of populations and caused this effect, but the declining birthrates we're seeing around the world are going to be worse in the long run than even all the plagues and wars if the trend continues.
The problem is nobody can talk about it because so many authoritarians and fascists have coopted the issue and made it about ethnicity and immigration. This is a huge problem so don't let the narratives spin you around.
Our problem is, once again, lack of community. In a world of information and isolationism, we're not nurturing each other in positive ways, we're not sharing love and empathy, we're not helping each other so why would anyone want to have kids? To say nothing of the incredible costs of living that are basically preventing people from even having free-time, much less 18 years of focus on raising another human being. We don't have paid leave, we don't have wages that can support a growing family, we don't have child-care and healthcare in much of the world, we don't have incentives to bring children into the world and even for people who have all that lined up, there's a lot of dread and pessimism towards what the future will be like, so people are also making a moral decision not to inflict more suffering on people who didn't consent to being born.
I don't see a solution that doesn't involve major social reform. Cities will crumble, economies will collapse, and maybe eventually something better will come from it.
Ok, but all of the things you listed are reasons why I would like this kind of economic system to decline. It's what's creating these circumstances and problems in the first place.
I'm not sure how people here can say they're against genocide in other countries while praising and fantasizing about the collapse of society. The death and suffering would outweigh anything we've seen so far before any kind of equilibrium is reached.
I guess you can just go ahead and have your apocalypse fantasies, you will probably continue to live in comfort even as countless people are displaced and made refugees from population decline, environmental changes and the wars that will be sparked as a result.
The problem is that the "decline" is going to be accompanied by a mountain of people living in miserable squalor or simply dying. That's the crisis that needs a solution. If a change in economic systems can solve it then sure, do that, but coming up with the details of how that'll work is the hard part.