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		whimsicalism 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Solution to US debt crisis is severe austerity tri... 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.

nobodyandproud 5 days ago [–]

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.

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