Population and Housing

[bravado]

Population decline isn't bad in most cases. Populations rise and fall almost cyclicly(when it is natural causes). When it declines, there are more resources around for those that are left, which triggers growth, then resources constrain and it falls, and so on and so forth. The reason we had the renaissence is due to this fact. Bringing in a gorilion people from God knows where* to be used as cheap labour doesn't fix anything, it just furthers the resource restraint, which is why western economies are in the toilet.


*the point is not race

Populations have not declined since we invented the welfare state in the 20th century... It is bad. And the declining birth rate is a global phenomenon that is not related to growth or current economic conditions. It won't rebound when things "get good again", it never has in any other society on earth with the same problem.