In reality, long-term prosperity depends more on how societies invest in education, skills, and technology, not just how many people they have.
... how societies invest ...
They seem to imply that conscious civilizational investment is important. If we are having economic problems at the country level then the authors refute that population stagnation or decline is the source of the problem. Fine, let's run with that for a moment.
The authors open the door to destructive malinvestment and mismanagement on a national level. i think many would agree. Maybe we could examine trends of investment over time to understand the specific things that are common among the shitholification of once great nations.
>In reality, long-term prosperity depends more on how societies invest in education, skills, and technology, not just how many people they have.
>... how societies invest ...
They seem to imply that conscious civilizational investment is important. If we are having economic problems at the country level then the authors refute that population stagnation or decline is the source of the problem. Fine, let's run with that for a moment.
The authors open the door to destructive malinvestment and mismanagement on a national level. i think many would agree. Maybe we could examine trends of investment over time to understand the specific things that are common among the shitholification of once great nations.