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While population decline I see as a major issue, the more pressing issue is that our social services will collapse. Other comments have said that social service
by _fat_santa 3y ago
While population decline I see as a major issue, the more pressing issue is that our social services will collapse. Other comments have said that social services are basically a Ponzi scheme, where the younger generation subsidizes the older generation. It's not hard to believe but then the next questions is: what are we going to do about it?
Eventually the age bell curve is going to start trending up for the older folks and were are going to have vastly more people taking out of the system than folks putting into the system.
- stephc_int13 3y agoPart of the social security system is built as a Ponzi, but we often forget that kids and teens are also economically inactive, having less of them means more money for the old.
- Engineering-MD 3y agoHopefully automation will help somewhat. But really we need to invest more in treatments for ageing and senescence, which is woefully underfunded.