- Less people = less demand for products. New customer growth stalls. Prices fall. Revenue and profits fall.
- Less people = less demand for housing. Prices fall. Investments fall.
- Less people = less people able to perform physical jobs.
- Less people = less tax revenue. Less money available for social services.
- Less young people = Aging population.
- Aging population = higher strain on social services. Pensions, healthcare, etc.
- Aging population = higher percentage of young people need to care for aging people instead of entering the workforce.
In a capitalist economy where your numbers need to keep going up to be considered successful (eg growth is necessary, stable profits but no growth = bad) then you are never going to have a good time when your population falls.
> No one really cares about less people, just less money
Eventually less people leads to less money.
