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   alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 01:24:09 JST alcinnz

   • phryk 🏴

   @phryk I hope to have UBI enacted locally before I get to that point...

   Otherwise, we'll see...

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 01:59:00 JST alcinnz

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     • phryk 🏴

     @phryk I have got a couple parties interested, including a semi-major one.

     But unfortunately National won't work with the Greens, no matter how many votes Greens got.

     And I will remark: I hope it doesn't leave the current economic intact! I hope once we no longer need a job near as much, we can reshape how we work!

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     phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 01:59:01 JST phryk 🏴

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     @alcinnz Ye, that's kind of the only way I see that at least *mostly* leaves the current economic system intact and doesn't just let a double digit percentage of the population languish in poverty and/or outright starve.

     Honestly I'm kind of amazed that pension collapse isn't a way bigger topic. I learned about the mathematical impossibility to keep pension systems going as-is in, like, seventh grade econ/politics classes in school and that was over 20 years ago.

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     phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 01:59:01 JST phryk 🏴

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     @alcinnz

     And all local politicians (at least here) do is pushing up the pension age further and further.

     Which, besides being a major violation of the "social contract" that's forced on us by the state, is just a recipe for disaster and obviously not sustainable – it's a shortsighted non-solution.