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America’s Op-ed Columnists Brainstorm Future Headlines About the Birth Rate
(www.mcsweeneys.net)
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seriously though excessively-falling birthrates mean less welfare available when we age into social security territory
my millennial friends all believe they won't get social security (because by then it would've run out) because of falling birthrates
Fine that makes sense but the headline specifically says "consequences for men" not for millennials or gen z or whatever, just men.
you got me there. maybe that's what it was trying to satirize?
ironically enough, a falling birthrate will mean that the welfare system will do better, because there will be less need to pay out unemployment money to the unemployed working-age people on top of the retirement money for old people.
sauce? there’s way more retired old people than unemployed young despite how the latter’s rising