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> Firstly, the popular unrest. > Pull the rug out from under them, and my bet is you'll have riots in the streets[0]. Let's make this even more fraught. Imag
by cjcole 9y ago
> Firstly, the popular unrest.
> Pull the rug out from under them, and my bet is you'll have riots in the streets[0].
Let's make this even more fraught.
Imagine that the cohort net paying into the system at any given time has a markedly different national origin / ethnic / cultural makeup than the cohort net receiving benefits.
Further imagine that those two cohorts may have some rocky history and feelings of mutual resentment or recrimination.
This has high potential to get extremely ugly unless managed extraordinarily well.
There is little doubt in my mind that this notion (well-founded or not, consciously or unconsciously entertained) is a key contributor to the current political let's say volatility throughout the Western developed world.
- cjcole 9y agoI expected the downvotes (I mentioned the unmentionable) but please feel free to engage as well (if nothing else to satisfy my curiosity).
- TeMPOraL 9y agoI don't get it either. You've raised a pretty important point I completely forgotten about. Blaming the problems of your country on foreigners is the tried and true method of controlling people. It happened in the past, and it happens today - as both Europeans ("it's the islamic immigrants!") and Americans ("it's the Mexicans!") should be able to testify. When shit hits the fan I'm convinced politicians will try to blame immigrants, just to distract the native citizens from blaming the government (or each other). What happens then we all know from history lessons.