Hank: fewer births will bring a demographic shift that strains Social Security and much else (2025)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2025-04-25) · owner: Hank
In April 2025 Hank predicted that fewer births would bring a demographic shift, with far more old than young people straining Social Security and much else.
About: total fertility rate, Population ageing, Social Security
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-25 | predicted | Hank says fewer births will bring a demographic shift; a society with far more old than young people strains Social Security and much else, a real situation needing attention. | How We Form Opinions 00:06:32 |
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2025-04-25 · How We Form Opinions — Hank says that because the right is loud, alarmist and even racist about it, few on the other side acknowledge the demographic shift; acknowledging it now seems a right-wing position. — 00:07:01
- 2025-04-25 · How We Form Opinions — Hank rejects the right's framing (a failing of educated American women, the end of white people) as terrible, but says the situation exists; if saying so alienates you from your tribe, the mechanism is at work. — 00:07:01