America’s Population Is Set to Start Shrinking in 2030. Can It Be Reversed?
2nd February 2026
More to the point, why would you want to?
If AI is going to be throwing people out of work, and is going to have an increasing effect on the workplace, it would seem obvious that a shrinking population would be a feature, not a bug. for the same reason that a central bank (like the Federal Reserve) reduces the money supply when the economy slows down so as to prevent deflation.
The answer, of course, is that all governments are involved in a multitude of ponzi schemes involving welfare and ‘retirement’ programs that require more and more people paying into the scheme to support the number of people sucking money out of the schemes and voting for the Usual Suspects.
Think about that next time you hear a bunch of hand-wringers lament the Population Crash. (Mostly the same people who were worrying about overpopulation half a century ago with ‘climate change’ meant a looming New Ice Age.)