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> Making the older generation a class of rentiers who maintain their standard of living off the backs of the young. Isn't this the natural way of things? Peopl
by qwerty456127 8y ago
> Making the older generation a class of rentiers who maintain their standard of living off the backs of the young.
Isn't this the natural way of things? People work and raise children ("living off their backs"), become too old for modern jobs and start living off the backs of the young. Hasn't it always worked this way?
- jf- 8y agoNo. That's a voluntary arrangement where families support their elderly relatives, or where society consents to support the elderly via taxation and redistribution. This is a situation where the older generation have an economic near-monopoly on housing and use that to extract rent where the renters have little alternative. I don't see these as being the same.