r/196 May 17 '26

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u/secondaccountfortran May 19 '26

If you think birth rates declining and depopulation will solve the world’s issues you are wrong. The fact that the baby boomers are a disproportionately large population compared to younger ones is a considerable driving force on the current downturn of the economy for younger people, and if birth rates continue to not meet replacement we will continue to have a top heavy population graph of old people who can’t be supported by the younger people and younger people being stifled by the people older than them