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What really needs to be cut is spending on old people, but that will never happen.
One can see an issue with a society with 80 non workers and 20 workers trying to compete in the world. The fact that limits exist is obvious, so the question of what that limit should be is all that is important.
While I am sure it is much easier to say than do, I do hope that I have the fortitude to take myself out though once I become too much of a resource sink for my descendants.
In modern society, if you are a “sink,” it is solely because the system is designed to make you that way – perhaps the wealthiest among us are able to pay a bit less on taxes, in exchange for your caretaker not getting monetary support. For example. I reckon gutting social security would be very profitable to some.
The government’s job is to be useful, and supporting those who can’t support themselves – like the elderly and disabled – is very literally the most noble and useful thing it can do.
Medicare and Social Security are not physical constraints of nature. Get real.
They've been making more noise and there's more smoke about this than usual. I did see today (yesterday?) Trump was on about them booting fraudsters off of Social Security. It made me wonder if that was the playbook. They start turning off the spigot for SS and Medicare, but publicly the story parroted by the media is that all they're doing is removing criminals, waste, fraud, etc.
While that'd be untrue, because that's the narrative being slammed down everyone's throat, even though there'll be people with individual sob stories it'd probably work.
People barely getting by that are reliant on scant support won't be raising much of a complaint that they're not actual fraudsters once that support is gone.
The problem in Tech is that they've lost their humanity (or never had any). Instead they operate from animalistic self-interest of "cull the weak to save the herd or they will drag us all down". This is the intrinsic nature of meritocracy. It derives from the fear of uncertainty.
Tech is supposed to be the best and brightest; and yet it is profoundly dumb. We propose a bunch of sophomoric solutions to human problems. I think this is due to youth, inexperience and tribalism which is reflective of a lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
