[chmsky00]

Let’s not devolve into thought ending reactionaries. I’m aware of the negotiated reality.

My point is it’s not a law of physics, but a social contract to be negotiated.

We owed pensions to people and took those away, so it’s not as if society has a very good track record of paying what it’s owed, so don’t get too hung up on those words meaning something forever.

You might take continuous iteration of our social contract as seriously as code; as we can see letting it accrue technical debt and bit rot is not so great.