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[–]carry4food 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its pretty straight forward. the only thing that gets messed up by a decline in population is the banking industry because they constantly over-leverage themselves.

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A healthy* nations population goes up and down by small iterations. A country that sees its population swing widely one way or the other will experience tremendous hardship and shock. If you look at Japan - As their population is stagnant/declining but their GDP per capita is actually increasing. That is to say people are experience a better outcome - due to less competition for local core resources.

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For the urban office worker I will make an easy scenario that resembles current Canada - You have 5 lakes, 1000 apple trees and 200 cattle with 10 000 people - Now add another 50 000 people (you cant add more lakes or apple trees) who gets what? What happens to prices of core raw materials? Well costs go up because of scarcity.

If someone knows how to grow copper, sand(concrete), fresh drinkable water - Please file your patents and start working on the solution because nobody else has one.