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We stand a much better chance by investing in public services like transport and healthcare, planning ahead, and not depending on eternal growth. But immigratio
by cedws 2y ago
We stand a much better chance by investing in public services like transport and healthcare, planning ahead, and not depending on eternal growth. But immigration is just too irresistible for powerful people to juice their quarterly profits.
- sofixa 2y agoLook at the estimated population pyramids for Japan and South Korea. They're looking into absurdities like the active population having to support (as in work for and pay for) 4 times as many retirees. It is simply impossible for that to work without some amazing breakthroughs in robotics and AI that will enable outsourcing of healthcare and elderly care. And that's just the ensuring the retirees don't die in the streets, what about everyone and everything else? What happens to the South Korean industries as they are today when their labour pool shrinks a few orders of magnitude?
- xeromal 2y agoMy question is who operates public services like transport and healthcare if 70% of the population is retired and/or incapable of driving the transport or performing the healthcare?