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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social

Japan is also suffering acute demographic loss. So is Russia. I guess this will be happening in the US soon too. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/07/a...

aug 28, 2025, 1:26 am • 3 0

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CruiseMissileLiberal 🇪🇪 @statedeptsocialist.bsky.social

Wages in Russia and Japan are going up because of labor shortages. Remind me how well American wages are keeping up with inflation?

aug 28, 2025, 2:20 am • 2 0 • view
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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social

I'm not in the US. I have no idea.

aug 28, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
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CruiseMissileLiberal 🇪🇪 @statedeptsocialist.bsky.social

Pretty bad

aug 28, 2025, 2:34 am • 3 0 • view
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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social

Trump's legacy will be like Netanyahu's... dragging their countries through the mud

aug 28, 2025, 2:41 am • 1 0 • view
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Arub M, MBA @arubamas.bsky.social

Wages going up due to labor shortages is not a positive in the long term. That simply means their economies will remain stagnant/decline unless they enact significant policy changes.

aug 28, 2025, 11:27 am • 0 0 • view
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CruiseMissileLiberal 🇪🇪 @statedeptsocialist.bsky.social

Japan's economy has remained stagnant but they have maintained a high quality of life, the UK has brought in something like 16 million immigrants over the past decades and has not seen economic growth or a better standard of living. Obviously Japan needs to have more kids but not for macroeconomics

aug 28, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view