If we lived in a fair and equitable society, caring for those people would not be a huge burden. It’s only because everyone is fighting just to survive that adding the care for those elderly in top is such a problem.
Appropriately enough, that bubble of aging people also holds an outsized proprtion of the political power.
So all they have to do, if they want to ensure that there’s a constant supply of young people to do the work, is use their political power to make the country the kind of place into which people would want to bring children.
And I have to say, cruel though it might be, that if they can’t even be arsed to do that, then it’s their own problem and their own fault.
There’s a bubble of aging people who need to be supported by younger people. Fewer younger people means declining options for everyone.
Except those rich people, who are going to find it more easy to exploit the remaining, more desperate workers.
If we lived in a fair and equitable society, caring for those people would not be a huge burden. It’s only because everyone is fighting just to survive that adding the care for those elderly in top is such a problem.
Appropriately enough, that bubble of aging people also holds an outsized proprtion of the political power.
So all they have to do, if they want to ensure that there’s a constant supply of young people to do the work, is use their political power to make the country the kind of place into which people would want to bring children.
And I have to say, cruel though it might be, that if they can’t even be arsed to do that, then it’s their own problem and their own fault.