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How many of those who feel like this is a problem wants to do everything to live to 100? You can't encourage and support masses living for 3,4,5 decades past th
by quantified 4y ago
How many of those who feel like this is a problem wants to do everything to live to 100? You can't encourage and support masses living for 3,4,5 decades past their economically productive years and not have a plan for supporting them. The first 20 or so years are spent growing up, then you work, with pay maybe maxing towards the end, until 60's, then get 30 more years. Cops, firefighters, military don't all get to work into later life.
If the only answer here is to run a population pyramid scheme, then so be it, but we all know the consequence of that. Cheek by jowl with very expensive water, food, and housing at some point.
All the retirees would have more to work with if they'd been able to save more of their own money along the way, instead of needing to plow it into other peoples' high profits and wasted government activities along the way. But spending 35 years repaying your childhood's costs and saving for 25-35 years more doesn't seem possible on an individual wage-earner level. There's a lot of money available in the economy, just not for people to actually live, eh?