Looks like the Greeks might beat the Koreans and Japanese in the extinction race.

Lots of empty houses. Ironic given just about everywhere else has a housing shortage.  To bad you can't ship the houses to where the people are.

I wonder who will pick the grapes and the olives?

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/11/ghost-towns-show-greeces-battle-with-falling-birth-rate-depopulation.html

Greece's ghost towns offer a glimpse of a country struggling with 'existential' population collapse

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How many times are we going to have this story repeated?  This must be about the 20th time over the last couple of years the same information about the horrible consequences of the declining global fertility rate, about once a month.  Do you get the sense this is following the first rule of propaganda, repeat it so many times it becomesThe Truth?

Top this off with the sage wisdom from Elon'

I think people worry too much about having kids, and it's sometimes difficult to make ends meet and whatnot," Musk said at a rally in Harrisburg, Pa., in October. "But honestly, there's really no time like the present. Just have kids. You won't be sorry. It'll work out.

Dontchya just love how the world's richest man tells everyone not to worry about the cost?  It will all just work out somehow.  Gag me with a spoon.

https://fortune.com/2025/01/19/top-economies-population-collapse-fertility-rates-china-us-debt-gdp-growth/

Top economies face 'population collapse' as fertility rates drop, and something's got to give, study says

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