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This paper aims to discuss the diagnosis of ageing as a serious problem in itself, and then deny that it is either essential or desirable to increase fertility or decrease pension protection. The fundamental hypothesis is that the demographic transition is not a negative phenomenon in itself, but quite the opposite. It is the result of important social progress, and a phenomenon with inherent potential for even greater opportunities. It is under particular distributional contexts that it becomes a problem: contexts characterized by polarised income distribution and contributory social protection systems. Therefore, what really is in crisis with the new demographic dynamic is the current intra-and inter-generational distribution of resources.