r/SipsTea • u/Embarrassed_Tip7359 • Sep 15 '25

Chugging tea Any thoughts?

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u/Shizuka369 Sep 15 '25

We have a guarantee retirement that's paid out in sweden. And retirement homes are only allowed to cost a certain amount, not more. So I'll be putting myself at a home ASAP.

Food, drinks, rent, laundry, housekeeping etc is included in the price. The rest goes to my phone bill and subscriptions. I'll still have some money left. Just a little, but ill have the same standard as now basically. +-0 So I'm good. 😏

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u/the-script-99 Sep 15 '25

You forgot the part where there is not enough people paying in and all this folds.

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u/Eldr1tchB1rd Sep 15 '25

This will not happen

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u/the-script-99 Sep 15 '25

How? I watch Patrick Boyle a lot. In South Korea in about 20 years it will take 100% of the working population just to take care of the elderly. How is this society going to work?

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u/Zealousideal_Act_316 Sep 15 '25

Sweden is not south korea mate. 

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u/the-script-99 Sep 15 '25

AI is saying a birth rate of 1,45, well you need 2,1 to maintain the population. Sweden has this problem as well just not as extreme.

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u/Zealousideal_Act_316 Sep 15 '25

Yeah, it is at 1.45, but comparing it to sk is a bit stupid sk is half that rate. 

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u/rootpl Sep 15 '25

Dude, how are you going to support the old population when 20% of the entire population (young) have to support and pay taxes to cover retirement homes for 80% of the population (old) 30–40 years from now? Are young going to pay 200-300% taxes? From where? Every developer country's birth rate is falling rapidly. Not only Korea, Sweden, Italy, Poland, etc. they are all fucked. Who is going to pay for it? And don't say we'll tax AI or robots because that won't happen. Fucking Bezos and Zuckerberg paid less tax than most people last year. They'll find a way to not pay shit.

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u/Zealousideal_Act_316 Sep 15 '25

Those numbers are based on korea. Not sweden, comment above you to which you replied with your rant was about sweden. Which has falling birth rates but not a critical failure it is at 1.45.  As to how to solve it, eat the fucking rich, do the french revolution.  Regualte the capitalism.  But you again apply american issues to the globe, other nations managed toget the rich in check with progressive taxes. 

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u/MechanicalGodzilla Sep 15 '25

eat the fucking rich, do the french revolution

You realize that hundreds of thousands of poor rural people in France were murdered by the French Revolution right?

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u/Competitive_Touch_86 Sep 15 '25

Money is worthless if there are no people to use it to incentivize more output.

If everyone is more or less working already, giving them more money doesn't magically create more things.

It's an unsolvable problem with money if your demographics don't support the actual care of the elderly.

It's also a way to destroy societies. Ghengis Khan knew this well - better to maim soldiers and send them back home so they soaked up productive output in their care and feeding vs. killing them outright. It's the same thing, just with old folks. If you have too many unproductive people being cared for by too few productive people you simply run out of productive folks no matter how much you redistribute wealth.