>>513953343>1. That birth rates will continue to stay that low for an extended period, regardless of whatever else is happening.You are correct. They're projected to actually keep getting worse and worse, mostly for reason 2:
>a decreasing population size is inherently badYes. Not because "arrow must forever go up" like the jews want, but because, fundamentally, humans = productivity.
With less people, there will be less things made and created and less advancement. Scientific advancement, industrial prowess, creative endeavors are all started and brought to fruition by (young) people, the number of whom will continuously shrink.
This also has a compounding effect on point #1, as the disappearing production won't mean disappearing demand.
People hear about shrinking populations and think "Good, there will be more for me." But the truth is more like a worse boomer-genZ situation, where the older generation will always be higher in numbers than the younger ones. Politically, they will be an unbeatable block, economically, they will own everything, and socially, the young ones will have to work twice as hard as they do now to get half as much as they're getting (Because remember, there will be less of everything anyway).
So if people are refusing to have children now, why will they be having them later when things will be getting even tougher economically?
Also, AI is, was, and will always be a pipe dream. The elites are going all in on it because they know that the clock is ticking anyway. Either they get worker robots to man the machines, or they will have some grey cyberpunk world without any of the toys and all of the resentful population.