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Tough, true words. Dont envy you.
Also, Bryan Caplan says it's fine and less trouble than I think...?
I agree with you on that, in principle, but a completely free market approach to it doesn't change the problem.
As my friend says, at the end of the day you're still handing over Apple stocks in exchange for apples; if there are too many people with stored up Apples and not enough people making enough apples, relative prices crash and retirees live shitty lives anyway
rich enough you can trade some of that money for babysitting... plus, standard labor-leisure economics optimization
precisely.
Maybe bitcoin can help with that along the margin, but there's gotta be a mentality shift around values and how we live—that's for sure.
Today, at least, I did my bit!
#872520
Also weighed in for once (92.8kg = 204.5lbs)... so apparently I'm numerically in your ballpark!
(think I've lost muscle mass in recent weeks/months; used to be 95.)
Nice, Reason!
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