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The ratio of retirees to workers is unsustainable. If you're not going to have children (and the trend is with the higher standard of living of a nation the less likely you are to have a large family unless you're highly religious. We see the trend happening also in quickly developing nations) then you need to bring people from the outside.
Even Japan, which intellectually lazy and ignorant people bring up as an example of a modern nation that is homogeneous despite having the same demographic problem, is forced to change its immigration policy.
And cutting taxes so people will have more children doesn't work because, as I said, the trend for nations with a high living standard is to have less children even when they have more money in their bank account. People prefer to invest in the future of one or two children than have four and spread out those resources.
This is not a conspiracy of the 'elites.' It's a desperate attempt to avoid economic collapse.BumpThe problem is non European immigration costs more money than it brings more often than not. There are studies now official about this here, it's about 40 Billions a year in deficit in France. Such figures were floating around unofficially for a long time, yet denied or underestimated by all the "elites" for decades, rather called an enrichement instead. Denmark's budget ministry also released recently a 5 Billions cost figure, which was kept hidden by previous governements each years. They sure won't pay for the retirements as they are two or 3 times more unemployed than natives on the second or third generations after their parents came to work in a particular field, as well of course as every other "disadvantages" that comes as a bonus. When it's all said and done, the natives will pay for them, which they in fact already do. It just brings short term malleable workforce that constantly needs to be replaced to profit a few type of businesses, and keep the minimum wage low as it's the reserve army of unregulated capitalism.
A demographic decrease wouldn't be a bad thing anyway. Never ever i took the highway at 3pm in afternoon and thought "id really like more people, that would be awesome". Japan is rather investing heavily in robotics and automatization than entirely new immigration policies, but they are willing to take Chineses for example as a short term solution for specific skilled jobs, which is a sane solution. No nation should be engaged in that kind of silly race of natality in order to compete with newcomers. If it was really only an economic issue, European countries would simply favors or even restrict immigration from within Europe, it's obviously something else, albeit multi factorial, at work behind all that.
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