China's population shrank in 2022 for the first time in more than 60 years, a new milestone in the country's deepening demographic crisis with significant implications for its slowing economy.
i can only hope that measures such as automation, ubi, and elderly care are accelerated in the decades to come.
I feel like, as a species, we have to be able to deal with a declining population at some point. We can’t keep growing population indefinitely. At the very least it will have to reach a standstill. If any country is gonna figure it out it’s gonna be a socialist nation like China. They may not have actually achieved full socialism yet but they are on their way.
I feel like, as a species, we have to be able to deal with a declining population at some point. We can’t keep growing population indefinitely. At the very least it will have to reach a standstill. If any country is gonna figure it out it’s gonna be a socialist nation like China. They may not have actually achieved full socialism yet but they are on their way.