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> And that labor will definitely not be available in 20 years at the level it is today. Pensions being public or private simply change the method of failure: c
by mschuster91 2y ago
> And that labor will definitely not be available in 20 years at the level it is today. Pensions being public or private simply change the method of failure: currency devaluation, raising costs or bankruptcy of the pension system, take your pick. It does not change whether they fail.
Indeed but a government at least has some sort of accountability and long term thinking built in. The forces of the market are by nature short-term dominated and are accountable to effectively no one (but a few select billionaires).
- spwa4 2y agoA government's policies are dominated by the need to think about getting re-elected (democracies) or the need to get people to fight and commit violence on others (everything else). Neither of which seem a particularly strong incentive to think long term.