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Re: Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born
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Originally Posted by Chris
Nobody is talking about extinction, and talk of overall population number misses the point. It is the age profile of the population that is the problem in this scenario. In a welfare state (or anything close to it) the old are cared for by the young, either directly working in social care roles or indirectly by funding them through tax.
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Yup - as the last line of the linked article states
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"The distribution of working-age populations will be crucial to whether humanity prospers or withers."
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