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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Italy really demonstrating what happens you elect a scumbag for the better part of the 2000s (noting the effects of federal governance generally take a few years to take full effect)
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That and being old. Average age us just under 50 and the birthrate is about half the deathrate. A huge proportion of their population is retired, and many of the workers they do have are over the age of 50. Not a recipe for great productivity.