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> how this pans out

Social fabric collapses. At least in the western world.

Many systems like pensions simple don’t work in the context of not enough stable families having babies.

You can patch it with immigration but that gets you other social cohesion issues.

All kinda scary




> Social fabric collapses. At least in the western world.

> Many systems like pensions simple don’t work in the context of not enough stable families having babies.

> You can patch it with immigration but that gets you other social cohesion issues

See: Canada.

But the other effect of trying to keep government pension running with immigration is that we ran out of housing for new people to move into here a couple of years ago. It's pretty much Battle Royale for housing while wages have stagnated at best.


The Eastern world is no different. China and Japan have record low birth rates and declining populations. Same goes for other advanced nations.




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