When globalization moved people from farms to cities for manufacturing and services jobs, fertility rates collapsed because children were no longer economic assets; this trend has now progressed 80 years, and the world has shifted from running out of children globally (which happened in the 1980s) to running out of 50-year-olds, eliminating the consumer base that drives global trade
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Peter ZeihanEvidence Quote
“when you move from the farm into the city, you have fewer kids because they're no longer an economic asset. You play that forward 80 years. And it's not that we're running out of children on a global basis. That happened in the 80s where we're now running out of 50 year olds.”
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