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The harm done by low fertility is that people end up with fewer children than they wanted, not that a society runs short of workers.

Drawn from what Lyman Stone said

Subjectdemographics
What this subject means

demographics Who there will be: birth rates, population decline, and what a shrinking cohort does to everything downstream.

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  1. Lyman Stone

    Demographer

    I don’t see population collapse or lack of workers as the central policy problem: the central policy problem is human happiness, human flourishing, and the freedom to live life well.

    Where this was said

    ↗Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com

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