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Lower birthrates are less an issue that people think.
For any living being self replication can explode incredibly fast, and it's usually the case when numbers dwindle, due more resources available per person.
Big birth numbers are more worrying and limited resources lead to fast "too little resources for everyone" situation.
I remember reading that part of what took Europe our of the dark ages after the black plague was that survivors thrived in an post plague environment. Also remember reading that dutch population growth actually taller because after so many people died survivors got more meat and food in general available to them, so their children grew a lot.
So in general I'm always more worry about high birthrates than low birthrates.
The problem is we have retirement these days. And also the plague would've killed the old and frail leaving the young and capable behind. Whilst birthrate decline means there are less young people relative to old people. This burdens young people who have to take care of the old. A problem that didn't exist when all of the old people died.
I suppose the worst case scenario is old people having to work because they cannot retire as soon.
They are already saying it that new retirement ages would be in the 70s
Not ideal, but far better than starving or being homeless because you don't have resources for so many people.
So I'm paying taxes all my life so old people don't have to work but I might never be the beneficiary of this system myself
Yeah. Why not make the old people of today work to fix the mess they created? Oh wait, old people rule the world. They will just favor themselves and the rest isnt their problem. Like they have always done.