Endless growth? Who is going to buy all those new products your AI employees are making? When none of the real people have jobs, how are they going to buy those products you're trying to sell?
- Less people = less demand for products. New customer growth stalls. Prices fall. Revenue and profits fall.
- Less people = less demand for housing. Prices fall. Investments fall.
- Less people = less people able to perform physical jobs.
- Less people = less tax revenue. Less money available for social services.
- Less young people = Aging population.
- Aging population = higher strain on social services. Pensions, healthcare, etc.
- Aging population = higher percentage of young people need to care for aging people instead of entering the workforce.
In a capitalist economy where your numbers need to keep going up to be considered successful (eg growth is necessary, stable profits but no growth = bad) then you are never going to have a good time when your population falls.
> No one really cares about less people, just less money
