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But the entire world wants to go to the US, Germany is not that attractive. The population is getting older and they need more young people in order to support

by mmarq 3y ago

But the entire world wants to go to the US, Germany is not that attractive. The population is getting older and they need more young people in order to support their standards of living and to care for the ageing population. So either they get more people and house them somehow, or they will have to accept that there won't be enough working people to support the country with their work. Another option, and I'm being sarcastic here, is to destroy the healthcare system like the Conservative government is doing in the UK and hope that eventually life expectancy will drop.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>But the entire world wants to go to the US, Germany is not that attractive. Germany, along with UK, Canada, AU, NZ, is attractive for all those for whom a US visa is out of reach, a.k.a. almost everyone. Most international workers who can't get into US, go for the next best thing which is those countries. The difference is US is better at absorbing more immigrants due to already being a melting pot and being the country with the fastest growing economy due to VC funding so importing more workers means more fuel on the fire. VC funding is almost non-existent in most of those other countries so importing more workers in a stagnat economy, means just wage suppression and increasing housing costs.