Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "How Meloni (Sort of) Solved Italy’s Migration Crisis" video.

  1. Politics is always about telling the people what they think they want to hear and not what can be delivered, the right wing of politics does this a lot, only to not deliver on their promises It is, after all, far easy to say anything on the sidelines to win the people over, but far harder to deliver on that once in power and reality kicks in. Basically, the reason migration numbers don't seem to want to drop much in pretty much any western countries is because of birth rates, the natives are not having enough kids and a big problem is brewing in that there's a widening gap from the young to old generation, that's likely going to get worse unless more births happen or more immigration. This on the surface might not be a problem, but it could become a major problem over the coming decades in either higher taxes on the younger generation or less money for public services, basically, the younger generation could get hit hard with higher taxes and lower quality of living whiles the older generation could end up with weaker public services. There might be a silver lining in all this, A.I. and robotics might solve this problem over the coming decades, but for now, governments need to be honest with the public in that lower migration numbers will ultimately lead to higher taxes and less money for social programs, at least until the balance on the population settles down, but considering that birth rates in pretty much every modern country is way below replacement rate and that I suspect much of the birth rates are from immigrants, things don't look good.
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