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by scottLobster 125 days ago
They get Social Security and Medicare, which while insufficient for many these days is a lot more than they would have gotten 100 years ago.

No one is going to argue that the system is perfect or can't be improved. Good people get screwed over all the time and always will, the most we can try to do is minimize that population.

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We could socialize the necessities of survival like all the other civilized countries in the world.