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      4 months ago

      Not just built, but it also underpins the American economy today. Like most industrialized nations, the USA has a negative replacement rate(fewer births than deaths). If immigration stops, at best, the USA slowly dies out. Long before that though our economy crumbles from the ground up.

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      4 months ago

      Given that the trend started in 2020, I wonder how much of this trend is Economically driven rather than politically driven.