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iateadonut t1_j9eoxbm wrote

Reply to comment by thedevilfromthebible in How good the US will be for living in future for those who will be earning decent?? by [deleted]

>have every citizen work 10 years longer.

the system is set up to respond to the reality of the situation: which is the coming demographic winter. it doesn't matter how much "money" there is; it matters how many able bodied citizens there are in proportion to the elderly and disabled and unable to work. that we'll have to work until the day we die is more a question of demographics than political systems.

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mcnathan80 t1_j9ewnaf wrote

Awful political systems create environments people don’t want to have children in. How do we break this feedback loop?

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iateadonut t1_j9ezhnz wrote

good point. i suppose one idea is that the minimum wage should keep pace with productivity & inflation, which would make the min wage $30/hour or something now.

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