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Cue old folks panicking about any change in the status quo.

Yes, it's ok for birth rates to change. It would be prudent for us to prepare for the collapse of the economic bubble resulting from ever-expanding demand for everything. Maybe our AI overlords will have some suggestions for how to change our industrial and banking infrastructure to operate in a post-expansion world.

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The problem is it's not just the economy that's going to collapse.

Other groups are not on board with the collective suicide thing and are already running over developed countries and replacing our ideas with their own. Things like women's rights, liberalism and free speech, even the way we value empiricism in Science are all on the chopping block. When we're gone no one else will be left to defend and argue for these things.

Maybe they are the wrong ideas if they don't lead to sustainable society. That is sustainable at least nearly population replacing society. Natural selection in essence. The other ideas are out competing them on long term, thus they must be superior ideas. Or at least more fit.

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