Comment on We can play that game too

• turdas@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I imagine you’re not being entirely serious, but I fail to see how that is anything but yet another inventive way of kicking the can down the road so that boomers don’t have to deal with it.

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So it’s honestly something I’ve been noodling about for a while, which is how to manage a soft landing from the current capitalist system given the overall trend of population decline and how capitalism as it’s currently structured can’t handle a sustained decline like we’ll eventually be looking at.

    The best vision I can come up with (and this is US-centric since it’s what I know best of course) is to first expand Medicare to all, next expand SNAP/Foodstamps benefits to all, then expand the housing assistance programs to all. Somewhere in there a universal pension and later on a universal income. This would decouple working class folks’ everyday and long-term needs from the wider economy. Basically eliminate the micro-economy so that the macroeconomy can do whatever it will do without too much pain for everyday people

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    • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That makes more sense. I was thinking printing money only to pay pensions, which honestly seems like something European social democrat parties might actually do.

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