Why falling birthrates might be a bigger deal than dominants narratives imply
Outside of high-tech solutions (external wombs, anti-aging) there&#x27;s one social: a totalitarian country forcing women to have kids. The only country I could see it happening is China.<p>In the absence of one of the three solutions, technological civilization will peak this century. It&#x27;s not poverty or culture that leads to not having kids, it&#x27;s industrialization. Any culture that automates agriculture to a sufficient level will eventually go extinct in the absence of a technological solution. Totalitarianism can work for a while but it&#x27;s inherently brittle - at best it can give more time for a real technological solution.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s the great filter.<p>&gt;Even if life extension technology does begin to roll out, any model we can conjure for its use based on current economic systems will limit access to the top fraction of a percent of the population, socioeconomically speaking, and thus be irrelevant in combating the above trend.<p>Completely unsupported assumption. In theory antiaging could even be delivered via a virus that infects almost everyone.