Why Do We Think That If There Is Sharp Upward Pressure on Wages, Workers Will Not be Able To Support Retirees?

Yet another which way is up problem in the NYT. A NYT article on a killing in China turned to the country's one-child country, concluding by telling readers:

"The policy has also begun to shrink the number of young workers in the labor force, putting sharp upward pressure on factory wages while raising concerns about how to accommodate and financially support the steady growth in the number of elderly dependents."

Sorry, but that one makes no sense. Suppose it said that:

"investment bankers a...