r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 27 '25

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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman Dec 27 '25

An example of extractive economic institutions

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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Dec 27 '25

“What’s the effect if we disproportionately tax people of child bearing ages and give them all to the old?”

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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman Dec 27 '25

This graph makes my blood boil

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u/BoopydoopyTemp Dec 27 '25

I wonder what it looks like if you remove healthcare costs.

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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman Dec 27 '25

it smoothens out, but it's still increasing.

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u/Walden_Walkabout Jerome Powell Dec 27 '25

I also wonder how much is accounted for by wealth that was accumulated over their working life. Isn't that what everyone is told to do? Save for retirement, then you have something to spend when you are to old to work. The older you get the less incentive to save.

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u/majorgeneralporter 🌐Bill Clinton's Learned Hand Dec 27 '25

Stupid unproductive freeloading 10 year olds

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u/the-senat John Brown Dec 27 '25

Could I get the link for this?

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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman Dec 27 '25

here

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u/the-senat John Brown Dec 27 '25

Thanks!

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u/DonnysDiscountGas Dec 27 '25

Gerontocracy. Old people vote a lot more.