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Yes/but. The migration of the masses from south to north is akin to everybody running to the high end of the boat, while those remaining behind rearrange deck chairs.

But it's not. The boat isn't sinking. The improvements are happening in both in developed and undeveloped countries. TFR is collapsing in Africa and South America also - in the latter, it's already dropped below replacement rate:

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/AFR/africa/f...
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/LCR/latin-am...

....all while global poverty has collapsed. Seriously. In 2000, about 70% of the world lived in absolute poverty - virtually unchanged from the 1980 level. Since then, that number has dropped to about 47%:

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/po...

The world is so much better than it was forty or fifty years ago! Why would you lose hope at a time when there's more reason to be hopeful than ever?

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