Lack of wisdom is one problem — another, potentially, is a shift toward greater "generation warfare," in which the young are perpetually trying to lock their particular birth-band into some semblance of long-run safety before their votes become the equivalent of monopoly money
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You see this sort of thing all the time in US politics: trying to mess with the gears of the system to benefit your cohort, knowing that (a) doing stuff tends to be easier than undoing stuff, & (b) everyone else is going to do the same, might as well hope they're less clever
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I assume it would look less like "create cozy benefits for the elderly" and more like "craft policy that makes asset-hoarding particularly easy for my generation, since eldercare definitely won't be there when my time comes"
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One-off college debt forgiveness is probably a decent example for one cohort, maybe very generous home-buying tax perks for another *slightly* older set. You wouldn't care to mess with constitutional amendments because frankly it's in your best interests for the benefit to expire
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