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  • …and that means retirees will literally starve and live on the streets? I don’t think it will. It will just be less luxurious.

    you might think that japanese boomers have generational wealth in form of real estate. this is not really the case, especially for rural population. houses aren’t built to last, lose value like motherfucker and are commonly demolished after 20-30 years, in part because people don’t like second hand, in part because there’s no point of building anything sturdier if typhoon or earthquake takes it. there is some newer construction that is intended to last longer, but it’s not a very common thing. so a reverse mortgage type thing won’t exist there, and yeah lots of people will get shafted by these conditions








  • there is a common criticism of charities in general: these give some random unelected unaccountable Specialest Billionaire Boy, along with army of weirdos willing to catch a bullet for him, outsized influence over what might be millions of people. there’s also magic of money in that that big donors will be able to steer charities to serve their own goals, under threat of withdrawing funding

    want to distribute resources from people who don’t need them to people who do? at scale? in a way that works? it’s called “welfare state with progressive taxation” but EAs don’t like taxing billionaires out of existence, because it takes away their control, and also takes away funding for machine god cult and ultimately makes them unimportant. my point is, some meanings of altruism don’t collide head on with being a libertarian control freak