[Skybird]

That is no argument, and it is a miracle, or better: a scandal that it is not opposed in public debate. since 15 years or so jobs are constantly cut, while at the same time, at least in Germany, companies report yearly record wins, often topping the previous year. So the generating of money obviously is not linked to an economical process for which the number of jobs is a valid indicator. Lesser workers have generated bigger incomes - that is the simply truth for the last 15 years or more. Problem is that these moneys are harvested by a smaller and smaller elite at the top, or are distributed to anonymous masses of private stock-holders, instead of being returned into the monetarian cycle of national economies. It is a constant drain of financial funds that is not available for supporting communal structures. If you would create more jobs - it would not mean more support for these structures, but just higher wins for stock-holders. I think we could cope very well with low birth rates and an increase of older population groups in the future without important cheap labour from foreign countries. But the cancer-like spreading of the stock-market-system has made that coping almost impossible. It leads to an economical philosophy that no longer values the interests of consumers or producers, national communities and economical general systems, but the profit interests of stock-holders - and the latter almost always have no interest, no knowledge and no personal link to these structures, or the business of a given company. So stock-holders demand only one thing: that a given comnpany should work in a way that generates the biggest wins for stock-holders - no matter if this results in suicidal policies and unresponsible violations of communal interests. Thois is the real probolem for me, not so much the decreasing population sizes.