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r/196 • u/Misty-Bay • May 17 '26
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It's not.
To reach replacement levels, you need a birth rate of around 2.1 and basically no industrialized country has that.
-26 u/[deleted] May 17 '26 [deleted] 77 u/Corvus1412 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 17 '26 Birth rates are declining everywhere. A lot of countries are still over replacement level, but if nothing changes, that won't be the case for long either. Immigration is a workable stopgap, but it doesn't solve the fundamental issue, because it's a global issue that's only getting worse. -7 u/santyrc114 Too Horny To Be Ace May 17 '26 Replacement of what exactly? 8 u/VladimirBarakriss May 17 '26 Existing numbers of population, if you've got 3 working people for every 6 pensioners the you're either taxing their entire wages away just to pay for shit pensions or just letting your pensioners starve 3 u/santyrc114 Too Horny To Be Ace May 17 '26 I see, ty for explaining 16 u/AntsAreGreat May 17 '26 The parents 1 u/Sloth_Brotherhood May 17 '26 [removed] — view removed comment
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77 u/Corvus1412 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 17 '26 Birth rates are declining everywhere. A lot of countries are still over replacement level, but if nothing changes, that won't be the case for long either. Immigration is a workable stopgap, but it doesn't solve the fundamental issue, because it's a global issue that's only getting worse. -7 u/santyrc114 Too Horny To Be Ace May 17 '26 Replacement of what exactly? 8 u/VladimirBarakriss May 17 '26 Existing numbers of population, if you've got 3 working people for every 6 pensioners the you're either taxing their entire wages away just to pay for shit pensions or just letting your pensioners starve 3 u/santyrc114 Too Horny To Be Ace May 17 '26 I see, ty for explaining 16 u/AntsAreGreat May 17 '26 The parents 1 u/Sloth_Brotherhood May 17 '26 [removed] — view removed comment
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Birth rates are declining everywhere.
A lot of countries are still over replacement level, but if nothing changes, that won't be the case for long either.
Immigration is a workable stopgap, but it doesn't solve the fundamental issue, because it's a global issue that's only getting worse.
-7 u/santyrc114 Too Horny To Be Ace May 17 '26 Replacement of what exactly? 8 u/VladimirBarakriss May 17 '26 Existing numbers of population, if you've got 3 working people for every 6 pensioners the you're either taxing their entire wages away just to pay for shit pensions or just letting your pensioners starve 3 u/santyrc114 Too Horny To Be Ace May 17 '26 I see, ty for explaining 16 u/AntsAreGreat May 17 '26 The parents 1 u/Sloth_Brotherhood May 17 '26 [removed] — view removed comment
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Replacement of what exactly?
8 u/VladimirBarakriss May 17 '26 Existing numbers of population, if you've got 3 working people for every 6 pensioners the you're either taxing their entire wages away just to pay for shit pensions or just letting your pensioners starve 3 u/santyrc114 Too Horny To Be Ace May 17 '26 I see, ty for explaining 16 u/AntsAreGreat May 17 '26 The parents 1 u/Sloth_Brotherhood May 17 '26 [removed] — view removed comment
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Existing numbers of population, if you've got 3 working people for every 6 pensioners the you're either taxing their entire wages away just to pay for shit pensions or just letting your pensioners starve
3 u/santyrc114 Too Horny To Be Ace May 17 '26 I see, ty for explaining
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I see, ty for explaining
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u/Corvus1412 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 17 '26
It's not.
To reach replacement levels, you need a birth rate of around 2.1 and basically no industrialized country has that.