• ajikeshi@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    sinking birthrate is leading to massively increasing payments into social security due to overaging of the population…

    so one can argue that it is worse for the “economy” due to decreasing purchase power

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      9 days ago

      no, that’s right-wing propaganda who wants to have more workers available to exploit as cheap workforce. more workers -> lower wages. supply and demand.

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        3 days ago

        the way it is shown at the moment, yeah…

        but there is an equilibrium for workforce-productivity-old_people

        where exactly that is is muddled, since a lot of the productivity flows into the pockets of the few