If the policy issue you're trying to solve is how to take care of aging people if the population is declining why not start with raising taxes noting the massive productivity increases of the past 40 years? Why not harness some of that to provide for retirement in dignity for the people who actually made it happen?
Do something about this:
If we as a society wanted to take care of the elderly, we could just choose to take care of the elderly and make cuts somewhere else like our bloated military or rescinding all the tax breaks for the rich and subsidies for people who probably don't actually need them.
We don't live on a planet that can sustain a paradigm of maximizing growth forever. And we're not going to be colonising Mars in vast numbers in the timeframes that Elon thinks we will be. So this pro-natalist bullshit is just throwing lighter fluid on the fire.
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