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That is certainly true. In addition the individual worker has been promised "you pay now and get security later" which makes it very hard to argue against. Yo

That is certainly true. In addition the individual worker has been promised "you pay now and get security later" which makes it very hard to argue against. Your stereotypical grandma isn't suited to be framed as a "drain on society" and she isn't typically getting rich of it. It's the sheer amount of grandmas that is bringing the system to it's knees. Much lying happened back in the day when it became apparent that birth rates would result in a lower standard of living for old people who worked all of their adult live. Rather than let the system fail gradually or seek to reform it in general, politicians took the easy way out and started supplemanting it from the general budget and have been ever since.

lotsofpulp 2y ago
>Rather than let the system fail gradually or seek to reform it in general, politicians took the easy way out and started supplemanting it from the general budget and have been ever since. I don’t blame the politicians, as it is impossible to get elected on a platform of reducing the biggest voting bloc’s (perceived) quality of life. It’s just a structural weakness in democracy due to the way humans are, papered over by growth due to high fertility rates in previous generations and the resulting momentum that I think started petering out somewhere in the 1990s.