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America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population

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Re: America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population

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If the strength of population growth, hard work attitude and morals ever come back from the 50s we'll be ok. Since the internet seems to want the opposite, I guess we're just going to burn.

pretty meaningless. the past doesn't repeat and you never bothered to prove the implication anyway

Re: America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population

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If the strength of population growth, hard work attitude and morals ever come back from the 50s we'll be ok. Since the internet seems to want the opposite, I guess we're just going to burn.

pretty meaningless. the past doesn't repeat and you never bothered to prove the implication anyway

More that in the 1950s other countries were recovering from bombing each other into rubble for the second time that century...

Re: America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population

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If the strength of population growth, hard work attitude and morals ever come back from the 50s we'll be ok. Since the internet seems to want the opposite, I guess we're just going to burn.

“We” will be fine no matter what. The future will still have Mormons and Muslims and evangelical Christians. Whether it has secular humanists or not isn’t our problem.

Re: America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population

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If the strength of population growth, hard work attitude and morals ever come back from the 50s we'll be ok. Since the internet seems to want the opposite, I guess we're just going to burn.

Twice the people are working now than then, unless you count children

Re: America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population

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The US and Canada can better handle a falling population because we are better at handling immigration compared to the rest of the world. Sure, there’s been recent pushback but no one is better at assimilation than the US and Canada. Maybe Australia and NZ are also close to us given their history?

I didn’t see any good argument how we’re worse than the rest of the world, especially compared Germany, Japan, South Korea, and China. Ghost cities will not be unique to the US.

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