“Experts Warn the Falling Birth Rate Could Have Serious Consequences for Men”

  • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    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

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 days ago

      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.

      • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 days ago

        sauce? there’s way more retired old people than unemployed young despite how the latter’s rising

        • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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          7 days ago

          the old people don’t need money, they need resources. and who produces the resources? companies, with the help of workers. so if there’s an unemployment phenomenon, that means that enough resources are already being produced, apparently.

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            7 days ago

            as a capitalist society they still need money to buy the resources. if they don’t have money then there’s not enough demand from them