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by orbifold 1479 days ago
Europe has an aging population, which is obese, smokes and has heart problems. It is a dying continent whose boomer generation has decided to transfer large amounts of IP to China for a short term profit, while refusing to have children, protesting against the establishment and being generally useless in their youth.

The millennials and gen-z is royally screwed, the writing has been on the walls for years.

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Fortunately we have a cure for this, an endless supply of young blood as immigrants. Europe has been a blender of races since the origin.

And about "obese population", Europe is not so bad in fact. Obese people die younger and most elders in Europe are slim.

Baby boomers refusing to have children? What?!
Birth rates of children born during the baby boom (the baby boomers) is 2/3 to 1/2 of their parents generation.
So? Infant survival and life expectancy rates are also way up since their parents generation. You can't just throw around generational statistics without any context at all and call it valid.