>>10661
births/deaths are probably going to simply equalize at lower levels
anyway population decline being bad is only pushed by capitalist thought that is obsessed with constant growth, for the individual it will probably be a good thing
like, do you know what event in europe literally doubled wages for the average person? the black death
>>10662
the vast majority of those children died, so actual increase in population have always been very low historically, the population booms of the 19th/20th century that were caused by a sharp drop in mortality thanks to medicine/food security brought upon by industrialization are the outlier and things are basically returning to "normal" levels