Comments by "Mark Welch" (@markwelch3564) on "France’s New Immigration Bill Explained" video.

@@Besthinktwicethere's definitely a contradiction in right wing economics right now The right: People should have more children! Also the right: If you can't afford the rent just work three jobs and have no life Because exhausted people are really going to want to add a newborn baby to their responsibilities!
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 @wolliebowl shareholder dividends also increase costs and can drive inflation, yet there never seems to be any great political panic about a dividend price spiral Funny that 🤔
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@ChristopherFodor so when Mogolia was more cosmopolitan it was a world power of it's day, and modern ethnostate Mongolia is largely irrelevant in modern geopolitics? I think that point works quite nicely!
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As Japan showed, low birthrates and low immigration are a bad combination. As people grow old you have a lot of pensioners needing support, and nobody to do the supporting Immigration is an emotive topic, but people taking a hard line against it need to explain the plan to support people as they get old, when there's fewer young people to do all the work
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@Wolf-Spirit_Alpha-Sigma other countries have their boom generation right now. If we split currently young boom generations, to support aging boomer generations, everyone can win It all depends on where people move from and to
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@Wolf-Spirit_Alpha-Sigma it would be unfair to take everyone, but if there's a balance where they can develop, but won't become a nation of old people in 40 years? That's a win for everyone!
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