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It's not obvious. Low birth rates are completely sustainable, you just kill anyone who can't afford to retire and can't work anymore, and society functions perfectly well.
We have machines that can do the work of 100 people in the past
I'm sure that we could make it work without killing anyone
We also consume bullshit at 100 times the rate. People will be unhappy to see that go away. But yes, we produce more than enough for everyone as is.
While the alternative is everyone who is unable to wotk is killed anyway by the apathy of the system?
We are doing what you are describing already, in the system we currently live in.
What? In the current system we pay retired people money based on past employment as well as just for living long enough, in most countries. Japan can no longer do that soon because without taxing their young to poverty, they just don't have enough income to fund it.
If you think unemployment or SS pay a living wage you have things to go learn
I specifically didn't mention SS and somehow you still bring the US into it in a thread about Japan.
I meant most of the world in general which is why I didn't name any such programs by name.
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The US isn't the whole world. Other countries exist. We're not even talking about the US here.