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by chaostheory 775 days ago
This is why the world is starting to suffer from the age demographic bomb as we speak. Retirees are starting to outnumber working adults. Soon they will outnumber everyone and the financial sustainability of pensions like social security and socialized healthcare like Medicare will come into question. The problem becomes worse when voters are no longer ok with using immigration to mitigate it.