• ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    So basically, the US dollar which is the global reserve currency, goes off gold standard, Israel gets a shit ton of money suddenly, and everyone is poor, fat, unhappy, divorced, living with parents, and without a home at a decent point in life. The global birth rate goes down. Savings accounts are fucked. It’s almost like we should have a currency backed by something other than the sentiment of some old rich white men that belong in a rest home.

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        16 hours ago

        Declining birth rates are a challenge under socialists systems also if you have a population skew towards the elderly. If 60% of the population is retired and now heavily utilizing a universal healthcare system, how is that being paid for? Ideally some of their tax income would have been saved for their healthcare needs later in life but that rarely happens.