Modern material and social technologies embed assumptions of large, growing populations; as populations age and shrink, unit economics, complexity management, and legitimacy of big systems and projects degrade.
— Reorients debates on infrastructure, welfare, defense, and innovation by highlighting population scale as a hidden design parameter that policy must address to sustain ambitious capabilities.
Marko Jukic
2025.06.01
100% relevant
The article states current systems 'assume large and growing populations' and were not designed to function with rapid aging and decline, using South Korea as the leading case.
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