The expanionists that recognize some of the ponzi qualities of how a lot of the modern welfare states are stacked. That those systems will begin to fail if populations don't perpetually increase enough. They dread that population decline is going to wreck how the welfare state functions (lie to voters, over promise on entitlements, pray population keeps expanding forever so new workers can pay for retiring workers, kick the can down the road; Japan has done this for two decades for example, the US is actively doing it, and lots of affluent European nations are doing it).
It forces a reckoning with very poor decisions from the past, the bill comes due, and almost nobody likes that.
Predictable population expansion helps politicians paper over a lot of various fiscal mistakes (they rely heavily on fiscal lies to function, telling people things that are irrational fiscally but popular). Britain, France, Japan, the US - four of the world's largest economies, and they all function by using the same scam (pull future potential output forward, eat it / distribute it today, fake the present standard of living for re-election at the cost of the future context). These are things for example Macron has wrestled with frequently in France, and absolutely no politician in the US wants to go anywhere near talking about how the trajectory on entitlements is going to bankrupt the US Government de facto (requiring forever low rates from the Fed, $50t in new debt over the next 30 years, and leading to a raft of bad follow-on things economically).
It is not just welfare, but also the healthcare systems.
Older people are, on average, much less healthy and need more medical attention. IDK if this can be solved by medical/nursing robots, but we almost certainly do not have enough living medical professionals to care for countries whose average age climbs over 50.
The expanionists that recognize some of the ponzi qualities of how a lot of the modern welfare states are stacked. That those systems will begin to fail if populations don't perpetually increase enough. They dread that population decline is going to wreck how the welfare state functions (lie to voters, over promise on entitlements, pray population keeps expanding forever so new workers can pay for retiring workers, kick the can down the road; Japan has done this for two decades for example, the US is actively doing it, and lots of affluent European nations are doing it).
It forces a reckoning with very poor decisions from the past, the bill comes due, and almost nobody likes that.
Predictable population expansion helps politicians paper over a lot of various fiscal mistakes (they rely heavily on fiscal lies to function, telling people things that are irrational fiscally but popular). Britain, France, Japan, the US - four of the world's largest economies, and they all function by using the same scam (pull future potential output forward, eat it / distribute it today, fake the present standard of living for re-election at the cost of the future context). These are things for example Macron has wrestled with frequently in France, and absolutely no politician in the US wants to go anywhere near talking about how the trajectory on entitlements is going to bankrupt the US Government de facto (requiring forever low rates from the Fed, $50t in new debt over the next 30 years, and leading to a raft of bad follow-on things economically).