The article discusses the declining birth rate and its implications for society. Experts Kelsey Piper from Vox and Gideon Lewis-Kraus from The New Yorker analyze how this trend affects the economy, institutions like Social Security, and social dynamics. They argue that a smaller working-age population could destabilize existing support systems and exacerbate inequality. Additionally, cultural factors may make raising children less feasible, leading to reduced confidence in family planning. The conversation highlights the urgent need to rethink approaches to demographic changes.
A lot of the way the economy is set up, institutions like Social Security, they were built when we had a growing population.
One of the problems of a shrinking and aging population is almost certainly going to be even greater political instability.
As there are fewer and fewer teachers, there's going to be shifts into private education.
In cultures where children are very rare, the confidence and feeling that you can have children... becomes less viable.
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