Fertility-boosting remedies are a self-defeating population Ponzi scheme

Evidence

Enlarging a young cohort creates a new wave of population growth that, in turn, will require an even larger growth in population to support it in old age. This is a population Ponzi scheme. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2648

Categorization

• CANDY: The phrase ‘population Ponzi scheme’ is a punchy, tweetable coinage that lands with minimal context.
• DEEPTHINKING: The Ponzi framing reframes pro-natalist policy as structurally fraudulent — each generation borrows from the next — recasting a moral debate as an accounting problem.