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The social services and retirement funded by taxes is pretty much a pyramid scheme of sorts. Supporting a large population of retirees requires an even larger population of working tax payers. Otherwise there is going to be degradation and cuts to services.

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This is the big elephant in the room that I don't see many people talking about. All of those social programs are set up with a huge assumption of exponential population growth. When that doesn't happen, they risk collapse. You can try to fix it with immigration, but often they end up dragging on those same social programs, at the very least in the short term. Their kids might not, but do we have that kind of time?

...so we (as in society and the press) implicitly blame and shame the people who didn't cause the problem in the first place for not contributing their fair share to other peoples' problems.

That's a nice ironic load of bull right there.

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