• Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    To expand on this, Baby Boomers were the largest generation of people in America. They’re all retiring or dying now. There are not enough Gen Z to replace them and the number of Gen Alpha will be even smaller since birth rates fell off a cliff in 2008. Unless the US decides to reverse its anti-immigrant policies, the supply of labor will be going down for the foreseeable future, meaning labor will have much more power.

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      11 months ago

      Can you tell the employers that? They don’t seem to be getting the memo from all of the strikes.

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      11 months ago

      Australia would be reducing in population were it not for immigration, and we’re nowhere near as low as Japan