All of you must have heard of all of those reports of the world collapsing due to populations declining.
I have some good news for you.
Most of the complaints are about how hard it is to raise children, or how wages have stagnated, or how expensive housing has become.
All of these problems can be solved without society collapsing if there was a very stable growth rate to the population of the world and countries.
Businesses want to keep growing, houses want to keep selling, economies want to keep growing.
The fact that there are so many people in the world is what allows for the businesses to take advantage of the people to the point that people no longer have time to reproduce.
However, governments can take care of their people better and businesses have far less wiggle room to take advantage of people when the population growth rate is highly controlled and there is a limit to how many people are going to be available.
All expansion has to be planned at that level, benefits have to keep going up because there are enough people to fill jobs, but not enough people to get rid of at any time.
Market forces.
Balancing out the total supply and demand of human population.
Globally the world simply didn't hit equilibrium in the past few centuries. Which is why everything appears to go in extremes.
As soon as lots of real estate frees up, humans will begin to continue reproducing.
World population will reach 12 billion in 2450.
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