This is a problem everywhere unfortunately. Especially in the UK where the media said this week that one in four pensioners is an asset millionaire. I didn't real the article carefully but suspect it's to do with home counties real estate prices.
One problem about the young funding the pensions of the old is that it becomes like a Ponzi scheme and would need an ever growing population.
Not at all, but I'm a realist about the feasibility of taking people from countries mired in extreme poverty and inequality (and corruption can't get the first two without the third) and placing them in far better run societies and expecting them to be able to be economic contributors....
Education, education, education.
Needs to happen when they're kids and not when they're in their 20s and have just jumped the fence in Melilla.... and about to end up as manteros* or worse because... what else can they realistically do?
Childhood education is a proxy for a lot of the life skills (separate from job skills) that people need in order to find and keep jobs.
I would love for the poorer parts of the world to get their act together and education is key but education for the sake of education (esp secular ) is not an important value for many/most of the people in the world and that's a driver of continued povery/inequality/corruption...
A vicious circle that neither of us can change by hoping for the best.
taking people from countries mired in extreme poverty and inequality
Yet those are the places that people most want to leave.
Needs to happen when they're kids and not when they're in their 20s
In parts of Africa there have been riots about this. Unfortunately the solution is neither quick, cheap nor 100% effective.
A vicious circle that neither of us can change
Before I read that sentence, I was thinking of using a similar one as part of this post.
There isn't an easy answer, however migration into Poland or other rich countries isn't a crisis. Crises are temporary. I rather suspect it's the story of the next couple of centuries.
In which case the real question is how we can manage it for the best
In parts of Africa there have been riots about this.
Unfortunately the solution is neither quick, cheap nor 100% effective.
Not true. Not killing white farmers is quick, cheap, and 100% effective in creating food surplus. On the other hand, if you (editorial) are a racist African moron with room temp IQ, you kill white farmers and starve.
suspect it's to do with home counties real estate prices.
I think you're right Jon. Years ago Ireland supposedly had the highest number of 'millionaires' in the EU and it was entirely due to the exorbitant property values in Dublin.
Meanwhile to get back On-Topic..... A Plan To Tax Women For Being 'Childless'. The country's birth rate is declining and we'll be faced with a shortage of workers in the future. Tax the people who don't have children.
So Poland is dying with a 1.4 repro rate. Now what Poland needs real bad, as they say, is more gays whose repro rate is...oh yeah, zero. And, of course, abortions on demand. Between these two rights, Poland will be... Sorry...I am out of ideas what to say.
is immigrants. Exotic immigrant males will arouse Polish females while exotic immigrant females will arouse Polish males. Simple. Already described by Sapkowski in Witcher saga about human and elf races.
Because now it is easier to find a female Ukrainian than a male Ukrainian in Poland.
Don't worry. They, the men, are coming as soon as leaving Ukraine while man is not a capital offense. It will be known as family reunification. When the process is completed, Poland will have 10 million Ukrainians and two official languages. It doesn't get any more stupid. But then what do you expect from the people who only feeeel but seldom think and where even men are actually women pretending to be men. We have one of these strange creatures here...
"Poland's birthrate on the decline" Solution: more abortions. At least, that's what Polish screamers want. BTW, JR is right. Women should not be allowed to vote because their convenience is all that matters.
You have a right to abortion right now. Take a coat hanger... Polish doctors, on the other hand,...their rights to perform abortions are restricted - just as their right to kill you with your consent.
Not the same thing you self-proclaimed genius
It is the same thing. More rights to abortions = more abortions. Not fewer.
...to have more abortions. Those coat hangers saved a lot of babies. Coat hanger, bleeding, infection, and death...Hmm...No. I am going to have that baby and keep it or I will give it to loving parents who can't. What a revolutionary idea. Me...a genius again.
Nobody cares about "a woman" when debating such policies. We care about what women (plural) will do and the consequences of it. If you (editorial) want to be part of the tribe and get all the benefits of belonging to it, the tribe has a right to set the rules and conditions. Don't like them, move. I did in 1966.