Stern to World [email protected]English • 4 months agoJapan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new lowwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square328fedilinkarrow-up1152
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agoSupporting the older, non-working, population is expensive. You need enough workers paying in to those systems that support them.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•4 months agoThat scheme sounds familiar. If you drew a diagram to represent the repayment of investments, does it resemble a geometric shape?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•4 months agoSure, but that still sounds like a self-correcting problem.
Supporting the older, non-working, population is expensive. You need enough workers paying in to those systems that support them.
That scheme sounds familiar. If you drew a diagram to represent the repayment of investments, does it resemble a geometric shape?
Sure, but that still sounds like a self-correcting problem.