But with stable or falling populations, economic stagnation, such as that which afflicted Japan for a decade, limits opportunities to profit. And establishment think tanks worry about how to fund Social Security without taxing the rich.
they use words like crisis, panic, catastrophe, etc. – it’s all to scare people into thinking the world is going to implode unless everyone starts furiously having babies. the world isn’t going to implode from fewer babies. profits will go down. that’s it.
edit: also-- “shrinking tax base”–fuck that. tax the fucking rich