[secstate]

What source? The US birth rate was absolutely not steady from 1990 to 2010 according to the OECD [0]. Fear mongering aside, surely the prospect of a population failing to birth enough new lives to replace the ones that die, as happened in France last year, seems like a bad thing for a capitalist system that depends on growth uber alles. AI and efficiency be damned, fewer people buy fewer things.

0: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/society-at-a-glance-202...

[lotsofpulp]

They mean the total fertility rate (TFR), not birth rate. TFR is the better metric for evaluating population trends over many decades.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/uni...

[secstate]

They should have said total fertility rate. Birth rates have absolutely been in a steady decline for decades.

EDIT, also, looking at TFR, it's been bumping around but there was clearly a collapse in the 60s. I wouldn't use that to show that the population of the US is growing healthily enough to support capitalism.