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It’s like the book “Why Nations Fail”. The elites wind up wrecking things as soon as they can consolidate all the power.

They (stupidly) would rather have all of a small, shrinking pie, rather than sticking with a smaller slice of a much, much larger pie. Even if they themselves would have been better off taking the smaller proportion.

China has the same issue if not worse, they are also very fast heading to a be a nation of majority senior citizens. Meanwhile the US has one thing saving it, immigration, to keep it’s demographic pie more in balance.

Immigration to replace the native population who originally made the country desirable to immigrate to.

I don't know if that's the win you think it is.

>Theres a billion kids from Shenzen though

Shenzen =/= all of China