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Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect (www.economist.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect::undefined

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funding getting smaller, retirement age getting higher. Governments want to milk every working year out of its citizens. Longer, healthier life should benefit the people, not the governments.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think that is capitalism. Capitalism has been trying to shut down government as they would be the facility to have the power to tax the rich. Now if only it could be used appropriately what with all the legal system strangling everything all to reward the rich.