Global industrialization over the last 75 years has moved populations from farms to cities, freeing up child labor on farms but making children expensive to raise in cities, which depressed fertility rates and created a global demographic collapse where the advanced world now has more people in their 60s than in their 50s, 40s, 30s, etc.

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Peter Zeihan

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when you industrialize you move the town and so on the farm kids are free labor in town they're just really really expensive pets you do this for 75 years and we now have a good chunk of the world the advanced world that has more people in their 60s than their 50s

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Geopolitics, Innovation, and Deglobalization With Peter ZeihanARK Invest
Created: 8/10/2026, 1:26:34 PM

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