Re:Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for governm...
by carlosjobim on Saturday December 07, 2024 @09:18AM
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Humanity has never seen such an extreme wealth transfer from young to old as what is going on in the industrialized world right now.
Pensions: Wealth transfer from young to old.
Taxes: Wealth transfer from young to old.
Socialized health care: Wealth transfer from young to old.
Rent: Wealth transfer from young to old.
Inflation: Wealth transfer from young to old (who owns the real estate?)
Capitalism: Wealth transfer from young to old (who owns the stocks?)
National debt: Wealth transfer from young to old.
It seems like all different systems at work in industrialized nations has the single goal of extracting all productivity from young workers and giving it to the current generation of elderly. Even the ideologies who on the face are against each other (socialism vs capitalism) both work mainly to reap everything form the young to give to the old.
The reasoning behind this is even with the best quality of life, many women will have 2 children, but insufficient women will have 3 or more children such that it offsets the number of women who have 0 or 1 child.
Those with zero children really drag the average down, and if it is because partnering with a certain portion of the population is simply not worth it, then government efforts on improving quality of life via work and benefit policies are not going to bump TFR to replacement rate.