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Re:Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing? by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:23AM (#24929711)
> would be investors who do not work for wages.

So, everyone with retirement investments. I think they're known as 401(k) in the USA, here in Australia Super Annuation.

We've built a self-collapsing economy?

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Re:Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing? by rsynnott on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:27AM (#24929737)
I mean, to some extent, yes, probably. In an aging society, as the fraction of the population doing productive work falls, this sort of thing is likely to become a problem.
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Re:Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing? by imtringued on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:22PM (#24936815)
It's only a problem in the sense that these investors will at one point realize that their investment is not as valuable as they think.
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