Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?

  • botengang@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    It’s not as easy as absorbing people into rural towns and I suspect you know that.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, but it seems better than the alternatives of letting those towns collapse.

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        1 year ago

        So you’re going to have towns full of retired old people? Maybe also include their caretakers and maybe service workers supplying everything the caretakers need. Oh, and schools for the caretakers children. And teachers, obviously. And maybe some industry for the caretakers spouses to work at.

        Retirees aren’t going to keep towns alive. They’re just usually among the last to leave.