Well you figured it out on your own! Yes, youth unemployment is systemically high, as is the case for older workers. Why would you pit the two underemployed groups against each other for scarce jobs? Unemployed older people need relief (retirement benefits) and youth need the jobs.

Please cite a single country where this happens.

Rich countries have less children then poorer ones. It has nothing to do with incomes, but rather education.

I wanna believe, but I am in the opposite camp where I understand Trans people are actively under the threat or actually being genocided currently in America.

I mean in TN trans people have been banned from going in public.

Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq8O7i4gI3k

You absolutely do get echo chambers, as many cultures naturally create enclaves. If you think homophobia is not a thing in Indian or Chinese communities.. ohhhh boy, you should talk to some LGBT Indians or Chinese...

It's not about "not paying people better". It's a literal workforce shortage. There are more job openings than people available to fill them. I'm going to guess that you are not German, or living there, otherwise you'd know that even on a part time minimum salary, you can live quite well.

Why does it need to be pushed back? Set a cut off age.

It's not even about profits. Lower production necessarily means higher prices, as inefficiencies increase, and demand per capita has increased in the past decades. Of course, this could be solved by people accepting a lower living standard, but somehow I don't think that's going to happen.

I would think that would be good for the US economy with half our competitors treading water.

Not sure if this applies to Germany, but I suspect it's similar. Here in NL, working 4 days a week is quite common. Of course, lower pay, but it's good enough for most things.

Housing is a huge problem, but I suspect the birth rate has more to do with people just wanting to enjoy life more, as kids are quite the burden on a hedonistic life style.

It does show in culture. At least from what I’ve seen and experienced. It absolutely sucks that conservatives have decided to use us as the new scapegoat, but we now have representation and acceptance I never dreamed of when I was a kid. I openly wept the day I finally admitted who I was to myself because I was convinced no one would ever know what being non-binary is and no one would ever love a non-binary person, and now we have non-binary politicians, non-binary romance on popular shows, allies willing to fight alongside us, etc. The Govenor of Kentucky vetoed an anti-trans bill. Kentucky. 10 years ago, I would have called you insane for even suggesting that possibility.

This shit lost them 2022, and based on the polls, it’s about to lose them 2024 the same way. Way too many people now know out LGBTQ folks or have LGBTQ family members. These assholes have been exploiting a broken system for decades. They were exactly this deadly and hateful to every other minority who’s been in their sights. Americans are tired of it. You Americans especially. Even their own supporters — the real people, not the bots and grifters — are starting to recognize that this shit is a distraction.

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The support in a poll means nothing if it doesn't show in legislature or culture. Which it doesn't. I think they have won, and while it's still worth fighting, the reality is far grimmer.

Also looking like, thanks to the RESTRICT act, any future conservative president will be able to ban any and all queer positive stuff from all social media.

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Lolololol. Anti work is calling you!!

They are unsafe. The German BKA (Federal Crime Agency) recently published the latest crime statistics and they are disastrous. Migrants commit several times more felony offences than german citizens.

Lol, small words from a small mind.

Yawn….. Take it back to anti work subreddit or learn how entitlements/pensions work.

America took the opposite approach: people living in poverty tend to have more children

I'd argue this isn't really a reform - you'd need even more unpopular measures in order to properly stabilize it.

See above comment, also, wipe your eyes. You’re stinking up the place.

young people pay for old people's returements with their labor. this scheme only works well if you constantly expand your population, something old french people failed to do

supporting earlier retirement is against young people's interests.im sorry you are not capable of thinking.

Yet Germans have fewer children than Americans.

Negative, you’re so full of shit it’s coming out your eyes