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Because almost every country and economy has been built on the assumption of exponential growth of a constantly renewing pool of young workers that will pay for the upkeep of the growing elderly population. For example, currently 18% of the Chinese population is over 60. It’s going to be roughly 40% by 2050ish.
The planet will definitely be happy though. Humans, not so much.
Remember when they said they had destroyed a bunch of bradleys even before any had been shipped to Ukraine?
Sadly this time it seems to be at least somewhat accurate.