* Steve, you often tell us on various articles about stagnating wages or stressed resources to do a ctrl-F for the “I” word, immigration. On articles like this one about the doom and gloom of homogeneity and low birth rates being the end of Europe and North America, might I suggest you do a ctrl-F for the “J” word, Japan.
Just like Trump recently told border fence naysayers to go ask Israel if fences work, our side in the open borders debate should start promoting Japan whose aging demographics and low birth rates mirror ours.
* Since it is only a matter of time before every population will be aging and/or declining wouldn’t it make more sense for the most advanced societies to pioneer how best to deal with it? Automation (new labor-saving technologies) seems like the obvious way to go since there will be fewer people available to do society’s work. Isn’t this Japan’s approach?
The alternative is to conceive of society as a ponzi scheme until the supply of dumb suckers runs out. At which point rioting begins.
