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[-] Iteria@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

Let's just be simple about this: pensions and oth3r old age support. Who pays for those? Young people. If young people have to support a lot of old people, you're gonna have a bad time. Everyone. The young people have have larger amounts taken out of their pay and old people who get less support because there are just literally not enough resources. And because old people outnumber young people young are pressured more and more under democracy to give more to older people.

That is only one terrible thing from demographic collapse.

[-] kofe@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

SoOo rather than pressuring people to have kids they don't want, maybe we can shift our attention to the absurdity of the system? At the very least tax billionaires out of existence worldwide

[-] SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

nonsense, let's just ban abortions and wait for the magic to happen. surely people won't resort to dangerous practices like coat hangers and poison because there's no precedent of that in history, like ever. we'll just head over for a pint and wait for all of this to blow over. the dragons demand their hoard, and by dog they shall have it!

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Supporting old people is already a sector of business. A wealthy country should already be on top of this? Can we not improve using automation to meet the higher demand?

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