The subsidy is for government bow wows.
They can’t be fired...
Low birth rate, aging non productive population, desperate taxation schemes to support unaffordable living standards. This is the national equivalent of a going out of business sale. Happening all over Europe. The Europeans can never recover from the cumulative genetic losses between 1914-1945. Similar dynamic in Japan, only worse. Would be interesting if the Japanese start borrowing from China to finance their life style as they age and become less productive. If they can’t pay, it would be a bitter irony to see the Peoples army sent to Japan to collect debts about 100 years after the atrocities of WW II. The future belongs to the fertile.