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Re:Mothers who regret having children are speaking out by edbarbar on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:10PM (#16136334)
Social Security is one example of the young subsidizing the old. Medicare is another. Old folks homes are another.

Seems to me there is ample evidence of the young supporting the old.

Consider what your aged life would be like if everyone suddenly elected to not reproduce. What would it be like to be 70, when the youngest person is 60?

Clearly, the young support the aged.

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Re:Mothers who regret having children are speaking out by gaius on Friday January 12, 2018 @06:08PM (#16137105)
Clearly, the young support the aged.

The young, by definition live in a world built by their elders, benefiting from all the infrastructure and institutions they created. So it’s not nearly as one-way as you think. Any care of the elderly is merely a part payment on that debt the young owe them.

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