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Re:Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by... by xyzzy4747 on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:46AM (#37999891)
The Yen will ultimately go to zero as Japan ages and depopulates. Germany is boosted by greater immigration, but otherwise native Germans aren’t having many kids either.
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Re:Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by... by reustle on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @11:16PM (#38008751)
To zero? Don’t you think Japan will open for more immigration before something that drastic happens? I lived there for 7 years, and while they are ridiculously slow, they aren’t blind.
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Re:Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by... by xyzzy4747 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @12:03PM (#38014191)
Japan is very ethnocentric so I can see it going either way.
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