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Comment by harpersealtako

You can't argue with demographics because, outside of immigration, it is physically impossible to change them in the short term.

Even if e.g. Korea somehow managed to get a fertility rate of 10 tomorrow, it would takes many decades for that generation to begin to contribute to the economy as a class of high-skilled laborers. No matter what Korea does, absent implausible levels of immigration, they are still set for future economic hardship due to their demographics.

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