>Better to plan for it and better to share the cost to everyone. And what do you do when your geopolitical rival is not doing that and using that money instea

>Better to plan for it and better to share the cost to everyone. And what do you do when your geopolitical rival is not doing that and using that money instead for their economy and military to maybe one day destroy you as they grow big and you grow small? Investments in humanity work when everyone is on the same page in good faith, not when you're rivals have imperialistic wishes and no democratic process or care for human rights to stop them. The other domestic issue is that if you make care for old people a guarantee for the elderly financed by a mandatory burden over the working population, then people have little incentive to be responsible for the future with their finances during their working age, making sure to not have kids and to spend everything because "why bother, when the government will take care of me?". >Some might call that a government. Some might call this wreckless planning of an unsustainable welfare state that can bankrupt a country.