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ParanoidAndroid's avatar

Fully agree with you re parasites and BS jobs - they literally are everywhere. However, isn't the population decline an opportunity rather than a threat to get rid of them? That's what will have to happen to prevent a total collapse of the economy. Someone will still have to collect your rubbish every morning, bake bread, ensure essential civic services like police, health care. All the flunkeys (to use David Graeber's favorite word from BS Jobs) will have to go for the economy to reach its potential. I actually think that if you spend vast resources on automation (look at Japan, which is at the forefront of aging and they are doing exactly that) and you get rid of all the freeriding flunkeys, whose existence so far has only been enabled by the favorable demographic tailwinds from the past, we could yet be surprised as to how few highly productive people you will actually need to keep the economy going.

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Klaus Slob's avatar

Our population growth these days comes from immigration and most of that is shit immigration. Dead weight basically. The only thing they provide is more consumption at the expense of the taxpayer. I don't see lots of new real jobs being created either. Infrastructure like power plants etc. hasn't really scaled up proportional to the number of people. We more or less haven't built anything new since the 1970s aside from fast food joints, gas stations and the odd highway. I'd take my chances on getting rid of all of them tomorrow. Does Japan really look like a worse place to live than these western countries?

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