Have you seen birth rates? They're really, really bad. Even poor populations in underdeveloped countries seem to be not having kids like they used to.

Have you seen #Bitcoin adoption? It's narrow and not broad at all.

Have you seen regenerative ranching grow? Hardly. The soil is cooked.

Have you seen the rate of #AI development? It's blistering. Automation is more like to pick up where the production of the likes of China and Vietnam left off, rather than local families in developed countries taking over.

It seems likely we will have several decades of population decline, not growth, and the question is where exactly do we bottom out...