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Mandoric
Mar 15, 2003

AgentF posted:

How does having a larger population or population growth act as an inhibitor to economic/industrial development?

A population growth dip creates a short-term window in which a greater portion of the populace is engaged in industrial production and a lesser portion in social reproduction. To use exaggerated theoretical numbers, if there are 80 80-year-olds being cared for fulltime, 100 60-year-olds, 120 40-year-olds, 140 20-year-olds, but only 100 infants being cared for fulltime, you have 180 workers, compared to 100 of each generation yielding 100 or 80/100/120/140/160 yielding 120.

Mandoric fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Feb 17, 2020

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