Aging northern economies will need cheap desperate workers from the South, but the resulting immigration will produce cultural conflict as native populations feel replaced.
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Aging northern economies will need cheap desperate workers from the South, but the resulting immigration will produce cultural conflict as native populations feel replaced.
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Key Notes
South Korea is Jiang's worst-case fertility scenario: aging and childlessness threaten economic collapse, military capacity, and nation-state survival.
He argues that older people, especially very old officeholders, increasingly dominate society and policy, with gerontocracy visible in the U.S. Senate and former leaders such as Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Dianne Feinstein, and Chuck Grassley.
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"...america have a huge problem and the problem of course is aging okay so in 2020 the countries in purple are countries that have..."
"They want people to deliver food to them. And unfortunately, young people don't have to do that because their parents have money. So the..."
"That's all that matters. So given the current state of state of events it's very hard for the western world and really for China..."
"Okay? That is a zombie society where no one works and everyone just I don't know walks around the park every day. No one..."
"So if things are stay the same if nothing happens South Korea will be will be dead in I don't know by 2150 okay?..."
"Okay? And if you're a middle class person in South Korea it makes no sense for you to have three kids. It makes sense..."
"...85 and older, whoa, look at this. Look at this. The aging crisis in America is huge. But it's not just America, it's everywhere...."
"You have 15 million Americans who are 85. And guess what? These 15 Americans, most of them are the ones who control America. So..."
"The guy's, this is a brain freeze. The guy should not be one of the most powerful men in America, but he is. That's..."
"...So another issue that people don't want to discuss is the aging problem in America where the leadership in Washington DC have aged a..."
"...and the WF types, they realize that they can't sustain the aging populations. And so they did this vax, which has, it's completely toxic...."
"So let's look at America's problems. First is aging, where the elite are now older and older, therefore they are less active, they are..."
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