>>511086545
Honestly yes, and we should all adopt it in our countries.
In Canada our boomer neetbux (OAS and CPP) made up about 12% of our 2023 federal budget. Many of them are still quite healthy since advances in medical technology and nutrition have kept people active for longer. The end result is that someone retires at 65 and lives off the government dole until 95-100 in some cases. That's 30-35 years as a neet; the equivalent would be someone never having a job until they hit their 30s. And of course it's the working age population that has to pay for it while being berated for not conforming to their expensive lifestyle. Also, mass migration, but we don't need to get into that here.
The worst part is that we missed out on a short but vivid era of rapid social change. If we accepted a mass demographic collapse, there would be a feedback loop of no government revenue leading to collapsing infrastructure. The result would be a period of mass urbanization and crime, combined with a larger share of government funds spent on security. The boomer decline would have lead to a gangmaxxed cyberpunk moment that would have lasted 10 years at the most before the boomers died off.
We could have been fine. We just had to wait it out.
