• Pregnenolone@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Because the age imbalance will be fundamentally crippling to everything we understand about economics. Basically the only young people left in 50 years will be working only to sustain the older population, or old people will be forced to work until they’re much much older.

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    9 months ago

    Yo dog, that’s a photo of Taiwan. We are not part of China.

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      9 months ago

      Wait, didn’t the photo say “Lightning Over China and Taiwan”

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        9 months ago

        It’s sorta misleading. The story is about China. We here in Taiwan don’t have a birthrate problem.

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    9 months ago

    The richer the country, the less children are born per-household. The one-child policy couldn’t have helped either

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      9 months ago

      Japan vs Taiwan France vs Poland Czech vs Hungary

      There are so many exceptions to that rule it’s crazy