[extropy-chat] Real estate as an extropian investment

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:00:12PM +0100, BillK wrote:

> Increasing the retirement age means that young people will have to
> keep paying for longer before getting any benefits. Politicians are
> finding that this is a very unpopular option.

Demographics favors the crafty old critters, and power games
those adept at lobbying.

The youth are few, preoccupied with pretty baubles, and apolitical.
A politician needs only survive one legislation period to cover his
own retirement, very nicely.

It's going to be quite interesting to find out what today's
youth will do, once they find out.</beberg> 

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