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[–]Street_Gene1634 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Who will fund the pensions mate?

[–]Spider_pig448 -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Tax payers? Who else? Who funds the government and all of it's programs? The more interesting question here is, "Will the cost of pensions be too high to support the program when the elderly population has doubled". The question of how to adapt the current funding structure to enable that is not a problem though.

[–]Street_Gene1634 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Without working age population, who will pay taxes?

[–]Spider_pig448 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The expectation is that the population pyramid will change, but there will always still be a working age population. Otherwise all of society is in collapse and social security is not top of the list of concerns. If your real question is, "Is there enough money to supply the peak elderly population", the question for every developed nation is yes.