• @GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works
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    5816 days ago

    I still don’t understand the obsession. Not everything has to be a ponzi scheme where line go up. Things can shrink, it’s ok. Not everything lasts forever. At some point you can abandon areas and let them decay.

    • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      2816 days ago

      I fully agree, but also, the whole concept of a pension plan only works if the next generation pays it forwards. Meaning this generation is paying for the current retired group, and no one will pay for them.

      • Dr. Moose
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        916 days ago

        Thats not necessarily true. Pension just needs the economy to grow and even with less people the economy can be stimulated through technology. If 1 japanese with technology can produce product equivalent of 1950s 3 Japanese than that’s growth.

      • @poopkins@lemmy.world
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        516 days ago

        This is just like a stock crashing because the quarterly profits did not exceed the very high growth expectations more than a lot, they only exceeded a little.

    • @redwattlebird@lemmings.world
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      115 days ago

      Isn’t there a protection where there may not be any new Japanese births by 2050? That they’ll essentially cease to be (pure Japanese)?

    • @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      115 days ago

      Not everything has to be a ponzi scheme where line go up.

      Yeah sure my personal cup of coffee is not a ponzi scheme AFAIK.

      But global capitalism? Definitely a ponzi scheme 100%. Literally destroying the planet to prop it up.