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Neoreactionaries promote a return to monarchy or corporate rule as a solution to this. I'm not particularly onboard with their solutions, but they are the only
by yummyfajitas 11y ago
Neoreactionaries promote a return to monarchy or corporate rule as a solution to this.
I'm not particularly onboard with their solutions, but they are the only group of people I can see who fully recognize the problem: democracies are fundamentally short term focused and unable to do complex planning. They are certainly well worth reading (obviously skeptically).
- tomjen3 11y agoThere is also the libertarian solution to government pensions: don't have them (this does not mean don't have the retirement savings, it means give the money to the employee, possibly in the form of a retirement account or higher wage). It is incidentally this solution that it seems they are taking with new hires.
- newjersey 11y agoAs much as I hate the middle road, that's the correct approach here. No, pensioners will not get a full pension. The negotiated cut I'd propose would not promise a "life of dignity" or anything to the pension ers but rather frankly, a responsible person should not starve with this amount of payments. Congress must act to clear the roadblocks here. It is disgusting to say that the current and future generations to pay for pensions that they don't get if they were to join today. I think that's the only reasonable solution. Of course, nothing will happen because old people vote and young people don't. So much for "think of the children" and all that talk.