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Finland has an aging population and too low birth rate 1.8 / little migration to support the elderly. The need to fix the 0.2.

• jpatokal 11y ago
  Unconditional basic income is certainly not going to hurt, as it'll make one parent staying home to take care of the kids a lot more feasible financially.
  • adventured 11y ago
    With 10% unemployment, and the last eight years consisting of a non-stop stagnation / recession (Finland has had zero net GDP growth since 2007) - how would removing workers from the labor pool not crash the economy even further? Finland is very likely to see its GDP stay at 2007 levels for at least a 15 to 20 year period of time. There's nothing indicating growth or recovery is inbound (things have only been getting worse the last three years). I don't see how it can all be paid for with a broken economy. Unless the premise is to drop concern for total economic output, and strictly focus on redistribution to raise the median. That seems like a huge leap of faith, unless you can get tax revenues to climb with greater economic growth.