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by whimsicalism 200 days ago
The American elderly are in 2025 the richest generation to have ever existed in human history. Elder poverty can be solved with a comparably much smaller transfer scheme than what we have crafted.
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Sigh. I don’t mean the elderly now or even my generation.

I mean the elderly in 50 years time, when Gen Zers and younger have to deal with the same question.