It doesn’t need to decrease, it needs to increase at a steady rate
fuck all to do with financial planning either, you could stick everyone on a gold plated final salary pension if you wanted but you need a larger % of working people providing services like transport, healthcare, food, energy etc
you either start killing old people off or accept the fact we need population growth, it really is a simple a choice as that
Where it all ends, fuck knows! You’ve just got to hope that technology keeps on developing so we can support a bigger population
In terms of the country being overcrowded, id say that’s a load of shit. I sat on a train to London yesterday and for the most part I was looking out on fields without any development whatsoever. The UK is hardly Hong Kong is it
finally, in terms of the country being ‘increasingly skint’ as you put it, I’d also say that’s a load of shit as well. Do you think we were better off in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s etc? I think not from everything I hear
In fact in terms of marketing demographics, 50 years ago the country was 33% ABC1’s and 66% C2DE’s it’s now 60% ABC1’s and 40% C2DE’s....
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2016/feb/26/uk-more-middle-class-than-working-class-2000-data