[extropy-chat] Extropic Freedom and the Fate of Dissidents

[Dirk Bruere]

On 11/2/05, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Dirk Bruere
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> > Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] Extropic Freedom and the Fate of Dissidents
> >
> > --- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I am often seen going about with a bottle of
> > > distilled water and a SCUBA tank....
>
> In response to a comment by Avantguardian that
> went something like: I live in Taxifornia where
> socialism is in the air we breathe and the water
> we drink.
>
> LOL!
> US 'socialism' is what we Europeans call rabid right wing government.
>
>
> I have always been a fan of rabies.
>
> {8^D
>
> Dirk, which country are you from? I am interested


England

in European politics to see how you guys solve the
> pension problem. We yanks have a social security
> fund that is supposed to go bust in 2038, but I
> heard Germany and France are facing a similar
> sitch with more urgency.
>
> I don't know that either right or left has a
> good solution to this. If so I haven't heard it.
>
>
There is the incredibly obvious solution of raising or abolishing the
retirement age for state pensions.
The alternative is importing tens of millions of immigrants.
However, one study for the UK showed that to maintain a suitable 'pensions
demographics' our population would have to double over the next 40yrs from
60m to 120m.

Anyway, my Transhumanist belief is that within 20-30yrs lifespan will have
been radically extended and the idea of people retiring at 60 and spending
the next 200+yrs on a state pension (or almost any other for that matter) is
ludicrous.

Dirk
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