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A Boring Dystopia
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What was the retirement age in the Soviet Union?
55/60 for women/men but the pension wasn't exactly high. Life expectancy 65 for men, 74 for women. Population was still growing too. Retirement as a concept requires enough young people to serve the needs of the old.
What is your goal with this question?
To find out what the answer is. What was your goal in downvoting it?
Oh, dearie me, a pure seeker of knowledge. Sorry, it's just that no one had mentioned the Soviet Union. And people usually bring up things that read like non-sequiturs when they want to establish a connection.
And I didn't downvote. Yet. I usually wait to downvote until a commenter leaves little doubt that they're a dickhead.
Sure, I’ll definitely take this unverifiable protestation of innocence entirely seriously
Watch those downvote numbers. Because they're all about to increase by at least one now.
Thank you for admitting to brigading
Being able to tag other users is a really useful feature.
What you’ve done here is basically made an underlined note in your own diary that I’m an idiot. Which, fine, but it’s funny you’re acting like that’s somehow a big burn on me
Nah fuck that you prove to me humanity can do an economy properly than we have a conversation. At this point we will all die before we ever have a proper economy. The greed of the few out weigh the needs of the many.
A proper economy is one where the people who need things more pay more than the people who need them less. That’s how we know what things should cost.
Yeah like communism on paper why dont you apply that?
Lol. You refer to that country as an example?
An example of what?
Lol again. That a serious question?