its the "hard times create hard men, hard men create soft times, soft times create soft men, soft men create hard times" thing for Boomers being the only generation in American history that got to experience a cradle-to-grave welfare state bsky.app/profile/jack...

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"whats wrong with the younger generation why is no one having kids anymore" like 5 seconds after they cut all the school buses and fired half the teachers because there's no property tax revenue to fund them anymore

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a tax revolt fueled by stupid people who don’t understand escrow payments www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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ultimately it's shit like this that makes the decline of birth rates and resulting demographic skewing towards old people self-reinforcing. Greedy, wealthy retired people voting to destroy the funding for public services they relied on throughout their life now that they no longer need them

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some of these people get so locked into a labyrinth of Rationalist thought experiments that they are no longer really capable of interacting with reality

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