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For one, welfare and retirement programs won't work. Those require at least an equal replacement population. Either the younger generation will be paying a lot
by DrThunder 3y ago
For one, welfare and retirement programs won't work. Those require at least an equal replacement population. Either the younger generation will be paying a lot more in with no return in later life, or they just won't be able to support the system.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoThe system collapses in a dark way if Japan is any fore-bearer: Old people dying alone/of starvation in their apartments, etc.
- jhbadger 3y agoThat's only because Japan doesn't want to bring in immigrants. There isn't a problem in countries like the US that have always been based on a culture of immigration.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoThe source of immigrants is going away, they are starting to experience the same demographic shift.