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> Research into life-extension is taking place in advanced countries that can't even maintain their current population levels without net immigration.

Sounds perfectly consistent to me.

> And also, at the same time, cannot be bothered to raise labor wages.

As long as the immigrants keep coming, why bother raising wages?



Right, the inconsistency is: the First World goes tsk tsk at the Third World for its overpopulation and poverty; meanwhile, it critically relies on the Third World to breed a neverending supply of cheap immigrant labor to exploit.


You could just as well say it offers people suffering from those circumstances the chance of a better life.




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