r/malaysia • u/stormy001 Pahang Black or White • 1h ago
Economy & Finance Malaysia only has 27 years to ready itself for status as ageing nation
https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/820493•
u/ZonkyTheMurderer 1h ago
Doesn’t help that the old cretins running for office are all “aging”. By the time we reach our 40s where society will have expected us to settle down, boomers will have siphoned it all that there’s nothing left to settle.
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u/aoibhealfae Pahang 1h ago
...is this supposed to fearmonger me into breeding? lol
Make life better for people to live and for people to be parents and have children responsibly. Being angry at childless adults because we didn't breed like rabbits serve no purpose. Let the resources go to those alive now. But hey, even kids aren't safe in schools now.
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u/bmw320dfan 50m ago
Exactly lol, what to do when everything is getting more expensive, working hours are longer, and free time is less?
Why put yourself through another stress of having kids, when you have so many other sources of stress
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u/QF_Dan 47m ago
Agree. Don't make your kids suffer in this world just because of the excuse to extend your family bloodline.
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u/aoibhealfae Pahang 2m ago
and then wholesale expecting the adult children to caregive for the elderly. Basically have a lot of kids so you can choose favourites between them.
Ngl.. I am pissed off at with the aging adults who said "tua nanti siapa nak jaga" fearmongering like oh now... you expect me care for you exclusively when you're aging and getting unhealthier as you age and but also expect me to miraculously in this economy to get a stable job, to have a lot of money out of nothing, to buy a house, marry someone and create life and to uplift the family image as a whole.. like soooo obtuse and soooo greedy.
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u/Ancient-End-5778 57m ago
27 years sounds long on paper, but it passes in a flash. Without major reforms to EPF, healthcare, and public infrastructure, we’re going to get old before we get rich.
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u/PorkyPain Beli Barangan Malaysia 1h ago
Well Anwar was thinking to have 6yr olds to enter into primary school. That would make Malaysians enter into the workforce earlier to support the free KTM rides, free zoo entry, free healthcare, free bus rides, and so on for the warga emas right? /s
Maybe population collapse is not really a bad thing in the long run.
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u/Monsta_Owl 1h ago
Boomer politician gatekeep everything and call us lazy. Using 3R politics to keep all plebians fighting each other while then plunder behind the scne.
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u/akuma2409 23m ago
Ageing population is a global issue none of us are ready for. Hopefully some other nation comes up with a full proof systemic change so we can just copy and paste
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u/Twerktilassbounce 1h ago
Nah, your children gonna take care me later
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u/dinotim88 KL / Kitakyushu Represent 34m ago
Malaysia has to get rich before becoming an ageing nation.
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u/HonorableNOIFOI 11m ago
Well let’s see if Malaysia is wise enough to not get into the western fallacy of believing that the ‘state’ (really the tax money of successful men) doing more for everyone, well really women, will make women want to have more children, which is demonstrably literally the opposite of what has happened in every western society.
Granted Reddit will not see that reality.
The state doing less and keeping religious values is the key to people having more children. Western societies had the post war baby boom (versus non war times) in the 1950s and 60s, with all their technological advancements. This ended after the 1960s when religious values were swept away.
The state doing nothing (in terms of interfering) allows the natural balance between the genders to be maintained.
It’s counter intuitive, sort of, until you think deeply about it.
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u/cambeiu 1h ago
If people think that government hospitals are bad now, wait until the majority of the population is old, which is not that far away.