Korea wird offiziell zur „Super-Age“-Gesellschaft

When adult diapers outnumber kids diapers, that’s pretty much an indicator

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South Korea’s ‘super-aged’ status signals a demographic time bomb—more retirees, fewer taxpayers, and a looming economic strain. Progress, but at what cost?

The older generations managed to make a society so bad that their children and grandchildren don’t even want to reproduce.

And they come coming up with all this other stuff that does nothing for their situation like new tvs

And these older generations are so fucking selfish. They want everything for themselves and couldn’t care less what they leave behind. It’s an embarrassment

Inb4 USA is the next one.

So with where we are now technologically, how possible is it for advanced economies to offset this with complete automation?

Thinking like Player Piano where most people just do government works/ government landscaping and all production and industry is run by AI or super computers and automation? We must be close to that?

I believe that’s the inevitable endgame for highly industrial, highly bureaucratic socities. Korea’s just getting there first before everyone else, probably due to the heavy Confucian influence on pretty much every aspect of their society, from business to government.

It’ll be fun to see how the tiny gen alpha, and the even tinier gens who’ll come after them, will react, if at all, to having to carry the welfare of so many old retired people on their backs. People who’ll keep living longer and longer lives due to both having more money, and the advancement of modern medicine.

Societies as a whole need to come to the realization that leaving control of government and financial systems in the hands of the aging population will not benefit everyone.

The older generations are hoarding power and wealth with no forethought for 20, 50, or 100 years down the road.

Voting privileges should stop at 60, no one older than 65 should hold public office, and corporate $$ should be far removed from any form of influence and politics.

Social security should be funded by a wealth tax on the current generation of retiries, with progressive brackets up to 200% tax for the extremely wealthy. This will encourage them to pass wealth to younger generations and finally stimulate economic growth like they promised for decades.

The world as a whole needs to decide what a reasonable # of humans to exist on earth is, resources are finite, and not every country should be expecting infinite growth.

Ya know, this birthrates thing really keeps reminding me of climate change, and both of them remind me of the steamroller scene from Austin Powers.

We have known for a few decades now that they are both going to become (and in the case of climate change; have already become) major societal problems, and almost for that same amount of time, we have known what is causing them to occur and get worse, but we continue to not do basically anything to alleviate that problem because, like basically every other societal problem, it is caused by wealthy ceos and businesses wanting to keep making more money.

Politicians: how do we fix this population crisis!!!

Population: Less emphasis on making a small percentage of us hyper rich. Less work, more pay, more emphasis on the human experience. Honor and respect the work and sacrifices parents undertake.

Politicians: truly a mystery that might never be solved.

Would never bring a child into a capitalist hell hole