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> generational warfare The first politician to pit retirees vs everyone else is going to cause the biggest voting block crack in history. Especially as the co

• incomingpain 3y ago
  Already happened in Canada. We have a shockingly divisive government at the moment. What happened was that the previous government increased retirement age by 2 years and like Obama made it such that retirement funds can reduce benefits if they arent financially solvent. But you can look at other countries where younger generations cant afford to buy homes, certainly not on credit. Or other countries where there's no more family. The older generation have to resort to silver crime or choose a new part time job. That's the thing of why generational warfare literally never works out. The younger generation decides on how much engagement there is. The older generation always needs the younger generation. there can never be a forced enslavement of the younger generations. But another reality, the people who vote are typically those who are old. Some countries have alreadydecided, for example japan. They wont cut retirement, they've cut everything else. Thus their politicians have basically said their country will not fundamentally function in the near future.