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Old 29-09-2020, 21:14   #33
jfman
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Re: Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
Oh, dear. Whole populations playing the victim!
I’d hardly say it’s playing the victim to find that previous generations mortgaged your future to piss it all away in a “low tax economy” with nothing tangible for you to show for it and it turns out now that we need to pay the bill after all you can either pay more tax or pay private industry. Either way you pay. There was, and never has been, a free lunch.

This kind of inequality is unsustainable unless living standards and opportunities improve. Both of which have been stagnating for about 20 years.
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