• Aniki@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    fun fact: i talked with a few people recently and we concluded that a sinking birthrate is actually better for the economy because otherwise the state will habe to raise higher taxes in the future to pay for all the unemployment money …

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      2 days ago

      sinking birthrate is leading to massively increasing payments into social security due to overaging of the population…

      so one can argue that it is worse for the “economy” due to decreasing purchase power

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        1 day ago

        no, that’s right-wing propaganda who wants to have more workers available to exploit as cheap workforce. more workers -> lower wages. supply and demand.