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So, those aren't really points that contradict each other at all. I wrote a research paper in college about demographic distributions and their effects on economic conditions in developed economies. The data we have shows that a aging population without a corresponding number of active younger workers always causes some systemic issues. It's not about the people dieing it's about the distribution of the population. In the famines and deaths during China's rise the people who died the most were the more vulnerable/less productive members of the society/economy. Which objectively likely helped the economy. The less productive members of an economy (the elderly) outnumbering the more productive younger members is never going to be a positive.

Look at what's going on in Japan. The shrinking population and aging demographics have followed some logical and predictable patterns. The youth have moved to the cities where the jobs are. As people are reliant on savings and pensions as a larger slice of the economies spending goes down and the economy shrinks. The rural areas of the country are in severe decline. You can literally get a free house far enough outside of the major cities. China is primed for this to happen in a much larger way from all statistics.

As someone with a graduate degree in economics who supports more of a socialist or communist policy shift worldwide, these bullshit arguments that snub all available data annoy the hell out of me. There's plenty of rational arguments and data to support communist/socialist ideas. You don't need to argue with established economic theory and data.

This is where it gets weird.

I'm using Connect on android and my instance is Lemmygrad.ml (which is what the app says I'm connecting via when I go to the thread) but when I copy-paste a permalink to the top-level comment my browser directs me to an instance that is discuss.tchncs.de (?) and my comment isn't shown nor is there a message stating that it's been removed.

When I access the comment thread via my browser and manually navigating to it from lemmy.ml, I can see my comment in the thread (plus a lot more comments) and the vote counts for comments that span both of these instances are significantly different. The same goes for navigating to lemmygrad.ml.