SOCIETY
Issue #315
23 Oct 2022
Talk about candidate shortage is fundamentally premised on the idea that it is a fixable or cyclical problem. But what if the issue is a manifestation of longer term problem - irreversible population decline? It’s an iron rule of population dynamics that as a country develops economically, so that country slows down its birthrate. The direction of causality isn’t clear but the correlation is consistent. Is the unthinkable the answer? Don’t see why not tbh