| It does mean, however, there there is going to be competition for young and talented people to live in a pleasant land without the burdens of carrying for quite so many aged.
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Good point, but, I think, incomplete. It’s probably true that all the current G7 countries will have high taxes and all the social pathology that goes with those taxes.
However, one of the G7 countries will have lower taxes than the rest, and there will be an incentive for competition among the G7 to be that one with the lowest taxes so as to attract smart, productive people. That will lead the G7 countries to lower their taxes — or loose out on some potential for growth as young people leave. In reality, probably a bit of both will occur.
More importantly, the discussion about where to emigrate does not have to be limited to the G7 countries. Here’s a list of countries by median age:
http://www.photius.com/rankings/population/median_age_total_2008_0.html
There are some lovely places where a putative energetic young American who doesn’t want to pay for someone else’s retirement can go to find a young society. Just find a nice place below position 38 on the list.
Does this mean that the entire young population of the USA (median age 36.6 years) is going to emigrate to:
India? (median age 24.8 years. Could absorb the entire population of the USA and barely notice. Big enough and multicultural enough to offer a vast array of living arrangements to the picky emigrant)
or Argentina? (median age 29.9 years. Currently in an economic crisis, but has been an economic powerhouse in the past, and might be again)
or Brazil? (median age 28.6 years. If they put half the national effort towards science as they do towards Carnival, there could be Brazilian cities on the moon).
No. It does mean, however, there there is going to be competition for young and talented people to live in a pleasant land without the burdens of carrying for quite so many aged.
“Just find a nice place below position 38 on the list.”
Yes, I’m rushing my kids to all these places.....
38 Macau 36.60
39 Saint Helena 36.50
40 Cuba 36.30
41 Slovakia 36.10
42 Korea, South 35.80
43 Taiwan 35.50
44 Cyprus 35.10
44 Puerto Rico 35.10
45 Faroe Islands 35.00
45 Barbados 35.00
46 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 34.60
47 Iceland 34.50
48 Macedonia 34.40
49 Ireland 34.30
50 New Zealand 34.20
51 Greenland 34.10
52 Moldova 34.00
53 China 33.20
54 Netherlands Antilles 33.10
55 Uruguay 32.90
56 Thailand 32.40
56 Korea, North 32.40
57 Palau 32.00
58 Qatar 31.90
59 Trinidad and Tobago 31.80
60 British Virgin Islands 31.70
61 Anguilla 31.60
62 Mauritius 31.20
63 Armenia 30.80
64 Chile 30.70
65 Antigua and Barbuda 30.30
66 United Arab Emirates 30.10
67 Sri Lanka 30.00
68 Israel 29.90
68 Argentina 29.90
69 Northern Mariana Islands 29.70
69 Bahrain 29.70
70 Montserrat 29.30
71 Albania 29.20
72 Kazakhstan 29.10
72 Dominica 29.10
73 Guam 28.80
74 Turkey 28.60
74 Brazil 28.60
75 Seychelles 28.40
76 Tunisia 28.30
76 Lebanon 28.30
76 French Polynesia 28.30
77 New Caledonia 28.10
77 Bahamas, The 28.10
77 Saint Kitts and Nevis 28.10
78 World 28.00
79 Guyana 27.80
80 Turks and Caicos Islands 27.70
81 Azerbaijan 27.60
82 Burma 27.40
82 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 27.40
83 Brunei 27.20
84 Suriname 27.10
85 Indonesia 26.90
86 Costa Rica 26.80
87 Colombia 26.60
88 Vietnam 26.40
88 Panama 26.40
89 Kuwait 26.00
90 Iran 25.80
91 Mexico 25.60
91 Saint Lucia 25.60
92 Peru 25.50
92 Algeria 25.50
93 Cook Islands 25.30
94 Tuvalu 24.90
94 Venezuela 24.90
94 Fiji 24.90
95 India 24.80
96 Mongolia 24.60
97 Dominican Republic 24.50
98 Malaysia 24.40
99 Morocco 24.30
99 South Africa 24.30
100 Egypt 24.20
101 Kyrgyzstan 23.90
101 Ecuador 23.90
102 American Samoa 23.60
103 Jordan 23.50
104 Vanuatu 23.40
105 Libya 23.30
106 Jamaica 23.20
107 Uzbekistan 22.90
108 Philippines 22.70
109 Bangladesh 22.50
110 Turkmenistan 22.30
111 Bolivia 22.20
112 Grenada 22.10
113 El Salvador 22.00
114 Paraguay 21.60
115 Papua New Guinea 21.40
115 Saudi Arabia 21.40
116 Tonga 21.30
116 Tajikistan 21.30
116 Nicaragua 21.30
116 Cambodia 21.30
117 Micronesia, Federated States of 21.20
118 Syria 21.10
118 Timor-Leste 21.10
118 Lesotho 21.10
119 Nauru 21.00
120 Pakistan 20.90
120 Botswana 20.90
121 Marshall Islands 20.70
122 Nepal 20.50
122 Bhutan 20.50
123 Kiribati 20.40
123 Samoa 20.40
124 Namibia 20.20
124 Ghana 20.20
124 Cape Verde 20.20
125 Zimbabwe 20.10
126 Iraq 20.00
127 Belize 19.90
128 Honduras 19.70
129 Cote d’Ivoire 19.30
130 Guinea-Bissau 19.10
130 Solomon Islands 19.10
131 Laos 19.00
132 Guatemala 18.90
132 Oman 18.90
132 Cameroon 18.90
133 Equatorial Guinea 18.80
134 Nigeria 18.70
134 Comoros 18.70
134 Sudan 18.70
134 Senegal 18.70
135 Kenya 18.60
135 Gabon 18.60
135 Rwanda 18.60
135 Swaziland 18.60
136 West Bank 18.50
136 Central African Republic 18.50
137 Togo 18.40
137 Haiti 18.40
138 Djibouti 18.20
139 Liberia 18.10
139 Maldives 18.10
140 Ethiopia 18.00
141 Eritrea 17.90
141 Angola 17.90
142 Madagascar 17.80
142 Gambia, The 17.80
143 Tanzania 17.70
143 Guinea 17.70
143 Benin 17.70
144 Afghanistan 17.60
144 Somalia 17.60
145 Sierra Leone 17.50
146 Mozambique 17.40
147 Mauritania 17.10
147 Mayotte 17.10
148 Zambia 16.80
149 Yemen 16.70
149 Malawi 16.70
149 Burundi 16.70
149 Congo, Republic of the 16.70
150 Niger 16.50
150 Burkina Faso 16.50
151 Chad 16.30
152 Sao Tome and Principe 16.20
153 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 16.10
154 Gaza Strip 16.00
155 Mali 15.90
156 Uganda 14.90
157 United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges NA
157 Western Sahara NA
157 Wake Island NA
157 Wallis and Futuna NA
157 Tokelau NA
157 Jan Mayen NA
157 Holy See (Vatican City) NA
157 Heard Island and McDonald Islands NA
157 Montenegro NA
157 French Southern and Antarctic Lands NA
157 Dhekelia NA
157 European Union NA
157 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) NA
157 Paracel Islands NA
157 Norfolk Island NA
157 Navassa Island NA
157 Niue NA
157 Pitcairn Islands NA
157 Antarctica NA
157 Akrotiri NA
157 Bouvet Island NA
157 Ashmore and Cartier Islands NA
157 Cocos (Keeling) Islands NA
157 British Indian Ocean Territory NA
157 Coral Sea Islands NA
157 Christmas Island NA
157 Clipperton Island NA
157 Saint Martin NA
157 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands NA
157 Spratly Islands NA
157 Svalbard NA
157 Saint Barthelemy
| It does mean, however, there there is going to be competition for young and talented people to live in a pleasant land without the burdens of carrying for quite so many aged.
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I'm all for it. I think there is something Cosmically Evil about beggaring the generation that is raising the nation's young in order to shovel resources at the dependent old. Any human society that has that as a value deserves to get wiped from the Earth.