for years it has been a capitalistic idea that if a country has more people in it, it’s always better, because that means there’s more workers who can be exploited by companies.
that’s however changing right now, because capitalists are understanding that if there’s more people in the country, then you also need to feed and house them (or there’s social unrest) and that costs money. And if you can’t give people good jobs (like, due to automation there’s fewer jobs in total), then you’re essentially paying for people to sit around and do nothing, and that’s expensive and probably not in the capitalist interest. that’s why we’re seeing a change of narrative in social media rn, where there’s less talking of “we need more people, muh duh, declining birthrate” and more people saying “well, actually, a declining birthrate is a good thing” and such.
I thought automation was going to take all the jobs? Seems like one problem solves the other
for years it has been a capitalistic idea that if a country has more people in it, it’s always better, because that means there’s more workers who can be exploited by companies.
that’s however changing right now, because capitalists are understanding that if there’s more people in the country, then you also need to feed and house them (or there’s social unrest) and that costs money. And if you can’t give people good jobs (like, due to automation there’s fewer jobs in total), then you’re essentially paying for people to sit around and do nothing, and that’s expensive and probably not in the capitalist interest. that’s why we’re seeing a change of narrative in social media rn, where there’s less talking of “we need more people, muh duh, declining birthrate” and more people saying “well, actually, a declining birthrate is a good thing” and such.