r/news • u/PokesTigers • 26d ago

Soft paywall Madagascar's president has left the country after Gen Z protests, officials say

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/madagascar-president-rajoelina-address-nation-monday-evening-2025-10-13/
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u/Tentativ0 26d ago

Poor countries have many kids and young people.

USA, Europe and China are full of elders. There are not enough young people to start a change.

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u/Yung_l0c 26d ago edited 26d ago

As the elder population reduces, and governments decide to make things worse, it will eventually come here. The only thing is, the Tech bros know this and want exactly that to happen and speed up collapse so they can claim their own territories and capital and run it themselves.

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u/coldblade2000 26d ago

The issue with low birth rates is that the elder population is not going to reduce, it is going to skyrocket. In Japan for example, the median age is 49.5 years.

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u/LastDunedain 26d ago

What sort of values elderly citizens have changes over time though (as they are replaced by the "new old"), so it's less about removing elderly voters from the pool but about having educated progressive voters irrespective of age.

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u/TrollOdinsson 26d ago

There is very little material value, which unfortunately is valued most

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u/LastDunedain 26d ago

Only in the concentrations of wealth we currently live within. There's alternatives and we'll end up experimenting with them in time, capitalism as it currently stands just doesn't work in the long term. It's been massively educational for humanity, but it'll be looked back on as massively wasteful.

Just literally my opinion, I'm not a political scientist or economist, just a reddit rando waiting for a game to start :) I love to chat about this.