As your population lifts up that age bracket, you get bulges. And as that narrow section starts to lift up itself, now not just running out of children. You're adding a bet of people in their twenties and their thirties. Their high value ad work relative to their economic skill set for t e economy as a lo as a whole, does really well. They start to outcompete everyone. As you start edging into the early sixties, they become capital rich as well. In that sort of environment, globalization, at its core, becomes impossible. The european union has worked for the last 25 years, even though it has a terminal democraphy
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