To play devil's advocate, since everyone here ignores the issue when complaining, depopulation is a giant crisis that needs some form of address. Simply telling the japanese (and europeans, for that matter) to have more babies hasn't worked for decades. Pensions and healthcare becoming insolvent isn't tolerable. Something has to be done.
Immigration is one solution. I don't know how feasible it would be to lower childcare costs through subsidies. It's hard to think up alternatives.
That something should be reforming pensions and healthcare. Pyramid schemes don't suddenly become workable just because it is the government running them. They will always collapse eventually.
Yeah. From the people who are covered by them. Importing more people to prop up the scam is putting a bandaid on a chainsaw wound, at best. Socialism always runs out of other peoples' money eventually. The hard truth that reality is going to teach us all is that if you don't pay in, you don't get to be paid out.
I'm talking about today's workers who are paying into the system who will retire in 20-30 years. Where will their pensions come from, if not for immigration?
To play devil's advocate, since everyone here ignores the issue when complaining, depopulation is a giant crisis that needs some form of address. Simply telling the japanese (and europeans, for that matter) to have more babies hasn't worked for decades. Pensions and healthcare becoming insolvent isn't tolerable. Something has to be done.
Immigration is one solution. I don't know how feasible it would be to lower childcare costs through subsidies. It's hard to think up alternatives.
That something should be reforming pensions and healthcare. Pyramid schemes don't suddenly become workable just because it is the government running them. They will always collapse eventually.
I mean, okay, but the money to pay them has to come from somewhere.
Yeah. From the people who are covered by them. Importing more people to prop up the scam is putting a bandaid on a chainsaw wound, at best. Socialism always runs out of other peoples' money eventually. The hard truth that reality is going to teach us all is that if you don't pay in, you don't get to be paid out.
I'm talking about today's workers who are paying into the system who will retire in 20-30 years. Where will their pensions come from, if not for immigration?