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jeff47

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15. Only if those jobs still need to be done.

Reply to hfojvt (Reply #14)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 03:07 PM

Aug 2015

For a trivial example, a boomer that retires is no longer stopping by Starbucks to pick up their morning coffee. If they are not replaced by a Millennial now buying that cup of coffee, then the "job" of one cup of coffee no longer needs to be done.

Yeah, lame example, but what I could come up with in 10 seconds.

Anyway, a reduction in the number of workers has been expected to start around now for the last ~40 years. That was the cause of the panic over Social Security that lead to the Greenspan commission.

So we can't really assume that "fewer workers means the economy is crashing". This article makes that assumption.

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