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I thought one of the reasons Germany was accepting refugees more so than other countries was because they had a demographic / labor problem that refugees would
by ethbro 10y ago
I thought one of the reasons Germany was accepting refugees more so than other countries was because they had a demographic / labor problem that refugees would help fix?
- Bombthecat 10y agoNo labor problem. What is missing are highly educated or experienced IT people. What a problem is that germans arw too expensive. Back when germany invited the turkish people they at least admitted they wanted cheap labor. Now they are just lying. Or completely ignoring that in ten or twenty years those people will be useless and sit at home because a ton of those jobs will be automated.
- ethbro 10y agoWhen you've got a negative population trend, it's hard to argue against migration under any circumstances. Maybe capital and automation take the place of younger workers, but that's a pretty serious bet to gamble social welfare program solvency on. http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-refugees-demographics-20150910-story.html http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-refugees-d... https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2016/jan/06/refugee-influx-helps-halt-decline-in-germanys-population https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2016/jan/06/refuge...