• Kinyutaka@lemmy.world
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        You get a bit of welfare, 'nuf for rent 🎵 A little bit of food, I recommend 🎶 A little bit of health care, for your life 🎵 And a little bit of family time, for your wife 🎶

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          You also get:

          • a population with an increasingly large number of older people

          -a relatively higher tax rate

          -a pension program which is unsustainable needing a new retirement age of 65 to 67

          -A country where mid career change is difficult

          -stratospheric chronic unemployment rate

          -a lifetime-employment system which translates to a large permanently-jobless population that’s just generally pissed

          -and employment being somewhat elite