America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population

This is only loosely related to the article -<p>I always hear people talking about how disastrous a falling population is. But I visited Japan last year which has had a falling population for a while and was in a long term recession for decades, since the 80s.<p>I gotta ask, is that what “bad” looks like?<p>Because I thought it was a pretty amazing experience and society did not seem like it was crumbling.<p>I understand they have their problems as a country (so do we all), but if Japan is a future indicator, I’d say we don’t really have to worry about falling pop too much?

Well then, aren&#x27;t we lucky that there are so many people who want to come to America? It might be a good idea to, y&#x27;know, let them in and allow them to work.<p>This is such an easy to solve problem. If only we would decide to solve it.

The US and Canada can better handle a falling population because we are better at handling immigration compared to the rest of the world. Sure, there’s been recent pushback but no one is better at assimilation than the US and Canada. Maybe Australia and NZ are also close to us given their history?<p>I didn’t see any good argument how we’re worse than the rest of the world, especially compared Germany, Japan, South Korea, and China. Ghost cities will not be unique to the US.

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The article doesn&#x27;t actually walk us through a comparison with other countries to show us how, exactly, the USA is worse off than other countries when it comes to handling a falling population. In Japan -- a country that is much more centralized than the USA -- closures of local services and funding cuts due to declining populations have been widely reported on for many years. In fact, there are small localities in Japan that are doing things like offering new residents free houses to get them to move there, which is not so dissimilar to small cities in the USA offering people incentives to move.

The US will import people from other countries. We are doing it now.

Cairo, Illinois (mentioned in the piece) is an interesting town to visit, recommend driving through during daylight hours if your travels take you near there.

That change in population map is cool...

...or a Civil War...<p>...or a Great Depression...<p>This Tower of debt-Babel has been a century in building. The resources[1] and ideals are present. The rot at the top is the challenge. If America is &quot;exceptional&quot;, then another exception will be thrown, and we&#x27;ll struggle onward.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Accidental-Superpower-Ten-Years&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1538767341&#x2F;ref=sr_1_1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Accidental-Superpower-Ten-Years&#x2F;dp&#x2F;15...</a>

I strongly believe this is very wrong. Just a $3500 tax deduction for children brought an increase in levels of 5-10% more children if im not wrong and it didn’t cost the states anything. Imagine if it was a $10000 reduction and so many people will have kids. Prove me wrong “shrugs”

I... can&#x27;t bring myself to trust doomerism from economists at the moment. It would further help if America wasn&#x27;t doing particularly better than... most everywhere else right now?<p>I&#x27;m not confident enough to say this is obviously wrong. I am fairly confident in saying it is almost certainly oversold. &quot;Uniquely ill-suited,&quot; per the headline, reeks of bullshit.

If the strength of population growth, hard work attitude and morals ever come back from the 50s we&#x27;ll be ok. Since the internet seems to want the opposite, I guess we&#x27;re just going to burn.