We have really low birth rate here :(

Mostly because young people are fuckin braindead and are too stupid to find a job so they go to work in a fish factory in the UK or Norway and stay there and start families there

People are sheeps in general

what have you expected

I am planning to leave Croatia because of better conditions of living and better pay

I assume some of those people in china do the same

@johnfrum it's really no problem with social security either in western nations. Maybe more in Asian nations. But many pensions can be cut in half and the pensioner will still live comfortably since his house is paid off and cost of living is low.

I don't know how house ownership works in Japan or Taiwan. But otherwise it wouldn't be a real problem. Just an aging demographic that needs to face reality

There were some scandals about government employees getting extremely high pensions very early but I can't find it anymore

In Taiwan

if you live in big cities in you're fucked

there's a fair bit of old people that live in poverty cause they got shit pension

Taiwan's retirement age is lower than most developed countire's retirement age

Workers retire at 61

But there are currently proposals to raise it to 65

Retirement age delay happens also in countries where the population is "increased" by immigration. It's likely that most people around the world that are 20-30 now will have a hard time retiring at today's age standards

On a side note, Taiwan's retirement system is a very good one, compared to the rest of Asia

you do those lottery things that Taiwan has?

like spend a certain amount and you get a lottery ticket

what do you mean? Doesn't lottery exist everywhere?

nah but instead of tax refund/rebate it goes into the government lottery

Ah I see

on every purchase, everywhere, you get a lottery code on your receipt and every few months they draw winning codes

that's done to fight tax evasion. People want those codes so shops have to declare the transaction

That's actually

Really smart

Wow uh

How high are the prizes you can win?

highest I won was 3 $

oh is that what it is

neat

what it was some weirdo tax thing

also heard you need a taiwanese id card for it though

Doesn't seem all that effective if they have low payouts

With a good accounting culture you wouldn't need this either

It's not about accounting, it's about corruption tho

Corruption with VAT right?

yes selling stuff without declaring the transaction. Taiwan's VAT is already really really low

Also it's have or not have on the money. People autistically collect those receips

Also you can donate your receips to monks or NGOs and they will cash them in if you have a winning number

on the night markets you usually have monks with baskets