Re:Denmark to raise retirement age to 70
by RestlessMind on Sunday May 25, 2025 @08:46PM
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If everyone thinks that government will take care of them when they are old, they will prefer spending time on "self actualization" (whatever that means) instead of the boring dull work of raising kids.
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Re:Denmark to raise retirement age to 70
by const_cast on Sunday May 25, 2025 @09:07PM
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Boring, dull, expensive and risky. We need to incentivize people to do it, not just give them vaguely nationalistic reasons to do so.
Pretty much the only people holding up births in the US is young people who accidentally got banged up. That demographic has only been shrinking as access to contraceptives and education goes up.
We don’t want to remove privileges from people, we want to add on incentives. Currently, there’s a million and one incentives not to have kids.