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Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?

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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but it seems better than the alternatives of letting those towns collapse.

[-] botengang@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So you're going to have towns full of retired old people? Maybe also include their caretakers and maybe service workers supplying everything the caretakers need. Oh, and schools for the caretakers children. And teachers, obviously. And maybe some industry for the caretakers spouses to work at.

Retirees aren't going to keep towns alive. They're just usually among the last to leave.

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