🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 10 hours agoAnon isn't worried about population declinesh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up137
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minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·10 hours agoWe just never get to retire. By 2030 it’s projected to be 2.0 workers per retiree.
minus-squarelimdaepl@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-25 hours agoWhat those „retiree per worker“ graphs always fail to mention is how productivity increased over the same period. Those two workers today produce about as much as 8 did in the 50s so supporting the retirees should in fact be easier today, not harder. That it isn’t is because wages didn’t increase proportionately.
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up45·10 hours agoSeems like it’d be a good place for the last 50 years of gains in efficiency to go. Time to start taxing the rich instead of worrying about taxing per worker.
minus-squareHerbGrower@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 hours agoBuild more housing so that houses are more affordable, bring on the 4 day work week. Expensive houses just funnels more money into the hands of banks and landlords without providing any benefit to society.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoWhy did it increase in the 90s and stabilize for a decade?
We just never get to retire.
By 2030 it’s projected to be 2.0 workers per retiree.
What those „retiree per worker“ graphs always fail to mention is how productivity increased over the same period.
Those two workers today produce about as much as 8 did in the 50s so supporting the retirees should in fact be easier today, not harder.
That it isn’t is because wages didn’t increase proportionately.
Seems like it’d be a good place for the last 50 years of gains in efficiency to go.
Time to start taxing the rich instead of worrying about taxing per worker.
Build more housing so that houses are more affordable, bring on the 4 day work week.
Expensive houses just funnels more money into the hands of banks and landlords without providing any benefit to society.
Why did it increase in the 90s and stabilize for a decade?