• snooggums@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That seems to suggest that relying on immigration to support a population is not a sustainable system.

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        1 year ago

        What happens if all countries were doing well enough for immigration to slow down? Like not having constant wars and dictatorships?

        What happens if your country becomes less appealing to immigrants, or gets a short surge of anti immigration leadership like the US?

        If an increase in population is necessary to support retirement and your own population can’t sustain that, then you are propping up a system that requires other countries to be worse off. That cannot continue indefinitely.

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            1 year ago

            I think you are assuming that my comment was trying to invalidate yours instead of expanding on it with my own observation.

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                1 year ago

                I didn’t say that you suggested anything or that you need to explain anything.

                Have you had a discussion where people expanded on and added to other people’s comments before or is this a new experience?

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      1 year ago

      The unsustainable part is having a pension and health system which relies on constant growth.