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#189 — Wealth & Happiness

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Social Security

I believe we should have greater assistance through solf security and other am for the for seniors who are in poverty. But if it's just going to people who don't, in fact, need it, this is just going to be viewed as a unethical clawback of wealth that they assumed was their own. We shouldn't issuing a trillion dollars in debt artificially inflate assets that are predominantly owned by old people. That policy has not kept up with demographics. Everyone's living into their eighties, nineties. The fastest growing demographic group in america are sentinarians. People working longer. Increasing the age means testing. It is ridiculous. I think you and i are probably in violent

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