Reply #4: For the long term survival of any organization

[The2ndWheel]

it needs a consistent flow of new people, especially young people, to be part of it. The numbers also need to grow, since more people means a shared risk, lowering the burden on each individual person. Which is why, for our institutions to continue doing what they do, we can't have a decrease in the population. You can kick that can down the road for a while, but eventually it catches up. When it does, things change.

With the aging populations of the developed world, it's not going to be a boring century.