• Sodis@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    If you want to shrink a population, you have to do it slowly while adapting the system to it. In a few years, with the boomer generation slowly retiring, Europe would be fucked without immigration. Too many retired people with not enough young people to care for them and uphold the economy at the same time. You can’t fix the resulting hole in manpower by only increasing efficiency. In Germany we are talking about a lack of 400k people per year.

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        1 year ago

        One would even say that it is too much for just efficiency improvements.

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          1 year ago

          Nah. We waste human resources on things that could be done automatically, look at our entire Government, all the wasted resources because some old ass bastards in politics aren’t able to commit to the new world.