Aaaand there you passed the threshold from quirky to retarded. Have a nice day, sir.

Absolutely. The government is constantly employing all manner of population controls to raise and lower birthrates in service to its vision of what it considers ideal constituents. We're all hybrids made half in the image of God and half in the image of State.

coffeebadger

Without statism and war, populations stabilize to a point where you wouldn't even think to consider the risk of such a problem.

 with a handwavy, unprovable hypothesis. I don't particularly disagree, but do you honestly think our demographic stagnation/future decline is due to 

Politics_And_Law

econ

Aging is About Politics, not Total Factor Productivity (X, Fernández-Villaverde)

denlillaapan

> Without statism and war, populations stabilize to a point where you wouldn't even think to consider the risk of such a problem.

nice cop-out, defeding an _incorrect statement_ with a handwavy, unprovable hypothesis. I don't particularly disagree, but do you honestly think our demographic stagnation/future decline is due to _statism and war_??