Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care
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Re: Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care
#2Makes sense since they don’t produce future taxpayers. They should also adjust retirement age based on life expectancy -of course people won’t like this but you can’t overcome the math. Separately, I also think airfare should be in part based on weight.
Re: Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care
#3Still a draft bill, nothing final yet.
Re: Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care
#4Every rapidly aging country (most of them) will need to either do something like this, or deal with a total collapse of social services.
Re: Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care
#5Because the elders haven't extracted enough wealth from younger generations? Because economics has nothing to do with people choosing not to have kids? I'm picturing Germany as Sideshow Bob walking right into another rake.
Re: Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care
#6There's a bunch of criticism, but this is in my view the only general approach that makes sense (globally) and should have been done 50 years ago already.
IMO a big factor for the whole sub-replacement fertility in developed nations (and resulting demographic problems) is that the state has invalidated/replaced all the economical gain that families got from children (cheap "workers" and elder care), but the chld-related costs to families have only increased.
Society gains massively from future workers/tax payers, but economical incentives are not aligned at all; children cost their parents a lot, society reaps all the benefits, but does not compensate parents enough economically.
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#7This is very cruel towards people who want to have children but can't.
Re: Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care
#8Makes sense since they don’t produce future taxpayers. They should also adjust retirement age based on life expectancy -of course people won’t like this but you can’t overcome the math. Separately, I also think airfare should be in part based on weight.
Childless people have a shorter life expectancy by ~2 years. So if we unsocalize the cost and base it on that factor, people with children should be paying more as they are a strain on the system for longer.
Re: Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care
#9There's a bunch of criticism, but this is in my view the only general approach that makes sense (globally) and should have been done 50 years ago already. IMO a big factor for the whole sub-replacement fertility in developed nations (and resulting demographic problems) is that the state has invalidated/replaced all the economical gain that families got from children (cheap "workers" and elder care), but the chld-rela…
Society pays a lot for children as well. Including members without children.
Re: Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care
#10Remember we borrow from future.