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Pretty doomerist of you. I'm honestly not concerned about declining populations. Better for the environment, and we'll figure out the rest through straightforward economics.
I hope so too. One of the key problems you have is taking care of the elderly and infirm with less and less of the younger generation around. It's a hard one to solve economically without being like "I guess just let them die".
As the size of the working population declines, labor will reallocate itself from less necessary positions to more necessary ones. So the proportion of the population that would have worked at McDonalds, for example, would work in nursing homes instead.
You think putting fries in a bag is the same as providing cafe to the elderly? This is some DOGE level planning.
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No, I mean people choose jobs which pay money and are widely available. When jobs to care for the elderly pay well and are widely available relative to other, less necessary work, then people will respond by seeking those jobs. This may require additional training. That's fine. People will get this training in search if the relatively higher wage. This is basic economics.