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Re:Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009) by yulaow on Sunday November 03, 2019 @06:39AM (#21433304)
As a person of your age I think this way: either we are screwed up so bad that the whole system will need to change and we will have to decouple pensions/healthcare/etc from the normal flow of economy, or else we are not so screwed up as we think and in some way we will be capable of fixing the system without a revolution.

In any way for sure an alternative will be found because else we are condemning a incredible big part of the population (and the voters) to die with nothing and that's not a viable political solution

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Re:Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009) by ForHackernews on Sunday November 03, 2019 @08:03AM (#21433624)
> else we are condemning a incredible big part of the population (and the voters) to die with nothing and that's not a viable political solution

What makes you think this is untenable? For most of human history, most of the population have been peasants, slaves and serfs who died with nothing or less than nothing, leaving their children indebted to the same masters.

It's entirely possible that the last 200 or so years of relative freedom and prosperity are the unsustainable anomaly.

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Re:Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009) by 2ion on Sunday November 03, 2019 @12:30PM (#21435245)
> In any way for sure an alternative will be found because else we are condemning a incredible big part of the population (and the voters) to die with nothing and that's not a viable political solution

That's the only reasonable thing to do. There are too many humans.

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