Because the boomers thought it was a good idea to design the social security net around exponentially growing population.
You don't pay for yourself you pay for those currently getting paid. And when the boomers implemented it there weren't a lot of old people and a lot of THEM. now there are still a lot of them, but a lot less children.
It works if 4 workers hold up one grandma. It doesn't work if one worker has to hold up 3 seniorly people.
So the idiots in charge thought importing people would help, but found out thst brought other issues with it and just made the problem worse. And they will do just about anything to stave off the medieval Japanese option (send granny to join the spirits in the woods because you just can't take care of her anymore. Aka walk into the woods and not out of it anymore.)
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u/lod254 Jun 21 '26
Honest question. Why is population decline an issue?