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Re:Why Britain Doesn’t Build by ilyt on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @05:18AM (#36490654)
> It seems like maybe they didn’t pay in enough - baby boom demographics meant there were relatively more productive workers paying for relatively few old people, so each worker was paying a fraction of what it would cost to carry themselves through old age.

Right but manufacturing technology better and more efficient, we produce far more "per worker" now

Re:Why Britain Doesn’t Build by ericd on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @09:55AM (#36492809)
Yeah, but I don’t think we’ve seen commensurate gains with healthcare workers, except by perhaps reducing visit time per patient.
Re:Why Britain Doesn’t Build by anigbrowl on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @12:15PM (#36494890)
Perhaps the inference is that the owners of industrial technology should be paying more taxes on their profits, since the proportion of labor as an input is shrinking.