• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It doesn’t require having children, but working population growth in general. Some of that is people having children, some is immigration, some of that is increasing workers by raising retirement age

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      9 months ago

      Endless population growth is both unnecessary and harmful to the environment. That’s one of the reasons we only had one child. One child replaces two of us.

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        9 months ago

        That’s not the topic of discussion. Funding of social security is designed around increasing working population, regardless of whether that’s desirable in other ways