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The young need to tear their opportunities away from the old which hoard them. Mandatory retirement at 55 would be a great start.
by nerpderp82 8y ago
The young need to tear their opportunities away from the old which hoard them. Mandatory retirement at 55 would be a great start.
- jsty 8y agoThere's a reason they call it the lump of labour fallacy
- nerpderp82 8y agoThe only economist over a hundred years old I'll trust is Marx. It doesn't appear to be a rigorous fallacy, just a defacto one, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
- SamReidHughes 8y agoJust divide the economy into people with even and odd numbers of letters in their name and pretend they're part of different countries trading with each other.
- jcoffland 8y agoMandatory anything is a bad start.
- conanbatt 8y agoI really find it amazing that people could subscribed to the idea that there is a finite amount of work to do, and the worst thing that cuold happen is that it runs out.
- nerpderp82 8y agoWhat a googley way throw an insult! I find it disappointing that you think there is an non-finite amount of work that can needlessly cause people to toil.