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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

There is a similar dynamic in housing - everyone how owns wants their home to go up in value. Everyone that wants to buy a house wants the market to be more affordable. Those are two irreconcilable priorities - so naturally government policy tries to do both.

John Wygertz's avatar

We are about to see an absolutely unprecedented expansion of productivity as AI becomes more capable and moves into the physical realm. We're going to have to figure out how to tax robots because humans won't be collecting taxed paychecks.

Americo Fernandes Teixeira's avatar

We are living in a system design for us to live 75 years not 90. I write about reaching the middle class dream and I agree with you that until we don’t plan to live 90 years the debt will continue rising fast. Check my latest post on this topic: https://themiddleclassdream.substack.com/p/the-missing-sentence-in-every-campaign?r=6417jn&utm_medium=ios