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Re:Poverty reduces brainpower needed for navigating other ar... by gaius on Saturday June 23, 2018 @06:47AM (#17380561)
The current 'old' also inherited a built environment and a great deal of basic research

The current generation of pensioners paid towards the previous generation of pensioners without quibbling.

It’s only millennials who take it all for granted and don’t want to pay what’s fair.

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Re:Poverty reduces brainpower needed for navigating other ar... by glangdale on Saturday June 23, 2018 @07:25AM (#17380719)
OK, now you're just ranting and/or making stuff up. It's not actually true that the current generation of pensioners paid towards the previous generation, as social security taxation didn't really exist back then or was trivial in comparison in terms of #s of dependents and amount paid out.

Every generation takes stuff for granted, true. Also, they play their music too loud and disregard the eternal verities (c.f. ancient Greeks).

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Re:Poverty reduces brainpower needed for navigating other ar... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday June 24, 2018 @12:50AM (#17385000)
> The current generation of pensioners paid towards the previous generation of pensioners

The gaping holes in public-sector pension funds beg to differ.

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