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by gottorf 494 days ago
South Africa is a good example of a country that is currently in that trajectory.
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mrtksn 493 days ago
Right, so you expect Germany be like South Africa soon?
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gottorf 493 days ago
I was merely asking your question about what happens when a country fails. I have no expectation of Germany turning out like South Africa.
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mrtksn 493 days ago
Right, I'm trying to find out what people expect to happen when a developed country fails.
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numpad0 493 days ago
Like post WWII Axis nations?
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mrtksn 493 days ago
I don't think its similar because this time those are not war thorn nations, it's just a period of population decline.

IMHO post communist countries after they got their shit together is closer analogy. They all had their infrastructure built, they had a well educated population and the problem was and its still is that there are not many young people to look after the aging population.

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