### Comment:
&gt; I agree entirely, but I don't think they're going to act rational. They lived through boom years. Thats what they know 
  
 True, they had it way too easy for their own good. Adjusting at an old age will not be easy, many will end up bitter.

### REPLY:
the way democracy works though is that a politician just has to promise to keep SS/Medicare solvent at the expense of everyone else and they'll win election after election b/c old people are such a formidable voting bloc 
  
 worst case scenario they'll force politicians to print money for them and try to live it out before everyone else gets fucked by inflation 
  
 honestly one of the weaker points of democracy in my opinion

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