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For all the words and charts, this is a very superficial analysis that (openly) glosses over cultural and regional differences for the sake of making it easy to

For all the words and charts, this is a very superficial analysis that (openly) glosses over cultural and regional differences for the sake of making it easy to make graphs and draw conclusions from them. > Alas, we must abstract at some point, and in our case the sensible approach suggests taking as conservative an estimate as we can (and which the data permits). We therefore consider the economically inactive population beginning at 65, and the working age population between 16 and 64. I mean, you do need to "abstract at some point" if you've committed yourself to writing this report, but your report becomes a lot less interesting once you do. And then when it comes to analyzing "solutions", it presupposes migration as if that would be the only meaningful way to weather a lopsided generation. It's a very "this is what it looks like around me, so this is how everybody must have to face it" sort of analysis.

bilekas 4y ago
> it presupposes migration as if that would be the only meaningful way to weather a lopsided generation. Given that you need to maintain and grow infrastructure and services etc while a baby-boom might be happening, also during a 'baby-boom' push demand on social services increases meaning there is a higher demand on Tax spending during that period, so there needs to still be a sufficient workforce already contributing. there doesn't seem like many other options than immigration to as the author says : "Plug the gap" What alternatives would you propose ? > It's a very "this is what it looks like around me, so this is how everybody must have to face it" sort of analysis. I'm really not getting this at all, there is data and examples given world wide. Some examples would be nice.