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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by snordgren on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @01:53PM (#34599903)
According to that line of thinking, older generations should also stop receiving support from welfare and social security. Let them sell their houses and leave their communities if they can't afford to acquire the goods and services they need through consensual exchange.

And yet very few will accept elderly starving in the streets en masse because their pensions were gutted or went bankrupt. And so some measure of intergenerational agreement is necessary, where each generation provides for the next.

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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by rootusrootus on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @03:39PM (#34601646)
Given that people are paying into Social Security their entire life, I imagine they'd take some offense if you took it away and said it was because the young'uns were tired of paying for them. They might be of the opinion that they did in fact fund the investment for their retirement.
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