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The same demographic trend is projected to hit the USA if the USA doesn't negate it with immigration. Really the entire industrialized modern world has shrinki
by notadoc 9y ago
The same demographic trend is projected to hit the USA if the USA doesn't negate it with immigration.
Really the entire industrialized modern world has shrinking or stagnant population growth. Educated people are having less children (if any) and later in life.
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- thriftwy 9y agoYou can't really negate it with immigration, can you? Immigrants are going to retire too, and when they do, you're stuck with even more old people and still not enough working-age people for modern economy to function. Immigration is like going into debt to sustain quality of life. Worse yet, you can end up with "illegal" elderly with zero savings. That would make for a miserable sight. Edit: Is the idea to sustain the ever growing population anyway? Until what?
- notadoc 9y ago> You can't really negate it with immigration, can you? Well from a purely numerical standpoint, yes you can. > Worse yet, you can end up with "illegal" elderly with zero savings. That would make for a miserable sight. That describes a huge number of native elderly in the USA too. Most elderly rely on social security entirely.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoI'm not sure that illegals can claim Social Security, though.
- solidsnack9000 9y ago> > You can't really negate it with immigration, can you? > Well from a purely numerical standpoint, yes you can. Not forever, though -- eventually everyone will immigrate.
- ZoeZoeBee 9y agoAnd that is a good thing. This isn't the pre-industrialized world anymore, we live on a planet with finite resources where automation is destroying the need for large tracts of labor.