Advantage 36 – Demographic change? No problem!

Excerpt from the book »Gradido – Natural Economy of Life«

»The inter-generational contract has been terminated demographically.«

– Kurt Biedenkopf, CDU [Christian Democratic Union]

Prime Minister of Saxony, 1996

People like to depict the so-called demographic change as a bogey. What does demographic change actually mean? On the one hand, the birth rate is falling in the wealthy countries and the younger generation is smaller. On the other hand, life expectation is increasing and people are getting older and older statistically. 

In the old system this means that the so-called »inter-generational contract« no longer works because fewer and fewer young people have to provide financial support for more and more old people. Here the emphasis lies on the word »financial«, for there is enough food for everybody. The politicians are trying to defuse this problem by raising the retirement age. This is a questionable approach when you think that we have unemployment On the other hand, we cannot make the politicians reproaches as the problem results from the system and therefore cannot be solved in the old system.

In the Natural Economy of Life old people contribute to creation of money like all other people. In addition, they also have the right to unconditional participation and hence an active basic income.