"Germany will be running out of working age people, soon." That's a big problem if your competitors are growing, but, they aren't, and even worse the worlds ca

"Germany will be running out of working age people, soon." That's a big problem if your competitors are growing, but, they aren't, and even worse the worlds capacity for oil production, natgas production, fertilizer production, food production, arable land, drinkable water, economically exploitable oil and metal ores, all in decline, so maybe its not so bad. If you're running a pyramid scheme stopping the bottom floor is a big problem... and if its worldwide, its a problem everywhere, so the question is who's best positioned to survive, and thats Germany. Its not going to be... Mexico, or the US, or Bangladesh. Or rephrased if you run out of working age jobs about as fast as you run out of working age people, no problemo. If you do the USA thing and get rid of 10 megajobs per decade and import 10 megaimmigrants per decade, you got a real big problem ahead. I agree with you on India. Assume you're a space alien and you hear all about their population, their philosophical history, geography, natural resources, educational system, blah blah blah and the space alien asks "And India is the ruler of the world, of course". Well it never seems to work out for those guys, much like the continents of South America and Africa.