Re:Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a ...
by ben_w on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @04:43AM
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> Well no, unless you literally starve them to death. State pensions or money in general is just a redistribution mechanism which doesn't change average available resources.
The way this is currently playing out in the UK, is that pension ages are increasing.
At the extreme case, there's no more state pension: if you don't have a private pension, you're working until just before you die.
I was thinking more of heating (and, increasingly, cooling) rather than starvation: Food specifically isn't the main concern here, unlike in the 1800s, because of how few farmers we need to feed the entire population.
(And this whole thing may be inverted at short notice in a whole bunch of different ways; UBI is basically a pension age of zero, but I'm only expecting that when AI gets good enough, and IMO that's "at least five years after self driving cars, whenever that is".
The way this is currently playing out in the UK, is that pension ages are increasing.
At the extreme case, there's no more state pension: if you don't have a private pension, you're working until just before you die.
I was thinking more of heating (and, increasingly, cooling) rather than starvation: Food specifically isn't the main concern here, unlike in the 1800s, because of how few farmers we need to feed the entire population.
(And this whole thing may be inverted at short notice in a whole bunch of different ways; UBI is basically a pension age of zero, but I'm only expecting that when AI gets good enough, and IMO that's "at least five years after self driving cars, whenever that is".