[tomjen3]

None of that would have been an issue if we had put the money away it costs to take care of those people when they get old, aka SS done right.

But we won't be back to the same demographic issue, because the issue that they people who retire now in the west are the last generations that were bigger than their parents generations (it has a formal name, but you can roughly think of it as many kids born, many kids die transitioning into many kids born, few kids die into what we have now which is few kids born, few kids die).