Comment by nerdponx

I am very much looking forward to a lower-birthrate future in which fewer people live better and more sustainably.

The problem is in the short/medium term, figuring out how to pay for all these checks that politicians have been writing over the last 50 years.

The problem isn't that "the young" have to support "the old", it's that a lot of promises were made on the assumption of indefinite growth.