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RE: A country that fails its elderly
There are countries where you can still talk of a golden retirement today: Denmark springs to mind, or Iceland, Singapore... The rest of the world is faced with the same reality you describe: poverty in old age. It’s a sad state of affairs. Here, one of the reasons is that there are fewer and fewer young, working people compared to pensioners. You still have stable birth rates – is it down to the generally high unemployment...?
For the high birth rates, I see that it's often driven by cultural values and a lack of social safety nets, which makes the children a form of old age security regardless of the current employment climate
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