Either that has to change, or taxation in general has to change. If 10% of your population can produce enough goods for everyone and yet the nation is strugglin

Either that has to change, or taxation in general has to change. If 10% of your population can produce enough goods for everyone and yet the nation is struggling with providing pension for 40%, this means that the problems do not lie in the economic plane. It gets messy when multiple competing countries are involved though.