Idea I've been rolling over in my head is the west (other places too) are straight jacked by the way that passive capitalists/financiers see the world. When they see demographic shifts which reduce the number of workers, family formation and gasp shrinking population all they are capable of doing is react in horror about what that's going to do to the value of their paper asset hoards.

Population decline -> decline in demand for paper products -> Dunder Mifflin sales down -> DMI market cap go down? ...no No NOOOOOO.