true itself. Once you are developed and everyone is earning good enough to sustain and they are not interested in crap things. Things get really stable indeed.

If the population is shrinking and the economy is stagnant, that would mean that overall the average wellbeing of a person in that population has increased, no?

japan=japanese=lifeforms and all lifeforms grow to occupy thier niche, which is not a linear process humans are unique amongst lifeforms in that our technological capabilities have created biological advantages that have increased the size of our availible niche, but there is no way to determine when and how an inevitable balance will occur........so perhaps the Japanese have been giving each other some serious side eye and have come to some sort of unaknowledged agreement