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[-] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Old people can’t work and need someone to pay for their retirement.

If there are more old people than young people (population pyramid wrong way round) every young person needs to pay a crapton of taxes so that old folks don’t starve to death

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Nah. Food is cheap and plentiful. We don't need young people working in fields for old people to be fed.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

Why can't immigration replace births?

[-] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Because Japan doesn’t do that.

There is an -ism they’re pretty big on, it starts with R

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 hours ago

Okay, but then we can't just frame the discussion as "increase birth rates or society collapses" because there's a very obvious third option that they aren't taking.

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Because Japan doesn’t do that.

They apparently don't do procreation, either.

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