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The US has a healthy immigration system that brings in a consistent stream of workers and tax payers to support all the old people about to clog social assistan
by adra 4y ago
The US has a healthy immigration system that brings in a consistent stream of workers and tax payers to support all the old people about to clog social assistance channels for decades. That's the strong trap that Japan has been stuck in for decades, and the one that'll start befalling China in a decade or so. It'll be interesting to see if Japan can escape the population deflation or if this is a constant shrinking population from here on out until it's untenable to continue as-is.
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoPonzi schemes are good at kicking the can down the road but when they eventually collapse, they're orders of magnitude worse than they would have been if the core problem the scheme was implemented to address was just addressed when it first became a problem.
- 14u2c 4y agoThe fact remains that the US is in a far better position to deal with aging demographics than the majority of Western countries. Immagration policy needs to be adjusted as soon as possible as to not squander this.
- mlyle 4y agoImmigration isn't a ponzi scheme. It's a reasonable way to prevent a precipitous collapse in the ratio of workers to retirees as birth rates decreased.
- KerrAvon 4y agoHealthy immigration isn’t going to last much longer if the cons get back into power in 2023-2024, as seems likely at this point. Closing the borders will be a fantastic way to curry favor with the MAGA base, and the cons will have no excuse not to do it with Democrats completely out of power in every part of the government.