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An inverted population pyramid is a huge problem. What does China do when it has far too few workers and far too many elderly? This is coming for them in the next few decades, a slow moving crisis in demographics.




Optimistically: Advancement in gerontology and improvements in problems that the elderly face.

Pessimistically: A society that doesn't support it's elderly, well it's a self correcting problem.


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