Old people being forced to retire or everyone being forced to work fewer hours would not help. That would result in massive load of productivity and value creation. The pie might get shared more equally, but it would be a much smaller pie.
Old people being forced to retire or everyone being forced to work fewer hours would not help. That would result in massive load of productivity and value creation. The pie might get shared more equally, but it would be a much smaller pie.
You're ignoring a very important detail - the quality of jobs. Only if people lower their standards enough will there be as many jobs as people that want to work. A significant number of those jobs will be (nearly) worthless, causing other social issues.
Disguising a lack of jobs as "not enough entrepreneurs" or "too much regulation" is simply a malicious semantic trick.
Some of the difficulties for growing the pie is listed under what you mentioned as possibility for Korea.
But until Korea can figure out a solution, people will end up fighting for a pie.
What?
In the face of large short-term changes in labor supply, that's a bonkers claim to make.
It might be true over a very long time horizon, but even that's arguable.