• ajikeshi@lemmy.world
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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

    • Aniki@feddit.org
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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.