I don't see how the world avoids a population collapse at this point.

The actual numbers are pretty clear; the world was rugged by money printers and all of it's gnarly knock on effects. People are living for themselves now, just to limit misery.

The ruling class seems to be seizing the moment by expanding automation and looting nations by selling governments wartime upstarts like genetic experiments, geoengineering, fake food, and digital crowd control systems.

Malthusians have only poured fuel on the fire by undermining fertility via dietary poisons and environmental estrogens, even exploiting pandemics to accelerate death and destruction via vaccines and lockdowns.

Central banks have made people so poor that RFK Jr has to focus on sugar and food dyes because nobody can afford a food economy without seed oils. Housing is made out of popsicle sticks+chemicals and people can't afford those either.

What will remain is a fairly large peasant class and a more exclusive, moneyed population.

This is the least talked about subject but it is probably the single most impactful thing happening right now.

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> Today, globally, women of childbearing age have an average of approximately 2.2 children over the course of their lifetime. In pre-industrial times, most women could expect to have somewhere between five and ten live births throughout their lifetime; however, the demographic transition then sees fertility rates fall significantly. Looking ahead, it is believed that the global fertility rate will fall below replacement level in the 2050s, which will eventually lead to population decline when life expectancy plateaus.

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