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Laeserin | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 In the end, it was inevitable.
An aging population consumes fewer resources. Deflation is normal.
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Low Information Voter | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I would suggest causality runs the other way.

Populations with fewer resources / less security than their parents marry and reproduce less and later.

David Ricardo was writing about that before 1800...