[carlosjobim]

> We need a lot more automation to start with since the labor pool is going to dry up

Automating what? The idea of production is to make things for people. As people are exterminated, there is less need for that level of production and the labour.

> We need to fund our social safety nets somehow.

The elderly has a gigantic amount of wealth as it is right now. They can finance all safety nets needed for their elderly peers, but prefer to just tax the youth even more and if that means young people can't afford families that's no concern of them.