• Ben Matthews
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    211 year ago

    It’s not passing such a milestone that’s an issue, so much as how fast we pass it - i.e. a population decline is sustainable if gradual. My concern is that our models of economics and governance derive from previous centuries when population was rapidly growing, which helped provide social mobility and influence for younger generations. So we need to adjust economics and governance to compensate, to avoid stagnation and gerontocracy.

      • Ben Matthews
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        141 year ago

        Well some small steps could include - taxes shifting from income to wealth, land and luxury use of resources, lowering barriers to voting for younger people (e.g. the requirement for stable residence disenfranchises people who move about), return to free education, a lower voting age and upper age-limit for politicians… Yet gerontocracy is a problem even in youth-skewed continents like Africa. So to be honest I don’t know, maybe some people here on Lemmy have more revolutionary ideas…?