>I'm not sure if you're sarcastic or not. That was sarcasm. >Why not? People were saying the same about Japan? Or you're sarcastic again? I don't know what p

>I'm not sure if you're sarcastic or not. That was sarcasm. >Why not? People were saying the same about Japan? Or you're sarcastic again? I don't know what people have been saying about Japan. Except they are prognosticating it's decline due to an aging population for a long time. I do believe that this a problem which can be solved by some economic pain and cut backs. >The social security system has seen massive cutbacks in Germany, Sweden, France, Finland, Italy, Spain, etc in the last 20 years or so precisely because the costs have gone up due to ageing population and mass immigration In Germany, as a percentage of GDP, it did somewhat rise though. Absolute welfare spending has doubled over the last 20 years. The only reason it could do this is because the same is true for absolute GDP. The GDP of Germany did massively rise over the last 20 years, clearly it isn't stagnant. If ever it stops growing, then the social security costs will rapidly outpace GDP growth, but that hasn't happened yet. At least, looking at the numbers, I see no evidence. Well, except for a very worrisome 2023.