Samuel Moyn

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Interesting Times · How Older Americans Hoard the Future · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

But where I think I'm going to differ most with the libertarian or neoliberal POV you're rehearsing now is that there's still this question about the floor of care to which everyone's entitled, especially as they age.

And there are lots of ways of making that not just less costly, but more generous.

And we really should.

I think we could get into some

Well, it is, but I think you're now presenting what I would hope it turns out to be a false choice between deregulatory and regulatory policies on the one hand, and generating the funds to pay for care on the other.

I don't see any conflict between those two missions.

It's gonna be really hard work, but if we abandon either, we're lost.

I think that's very fair, Ross.

I mean, I do think maybe our biggest political problem is the alienation of younger people from the political system.

I see it in my own daughters.

My children, you know, college age, have inherited a world they think is irreparably broken and beyond redemption in many ways.

And I think that's a tragic thing.

So we do have to imagine them angrier than they have been.

Also, if they could be activated in the way you're...

envisioning, they could see the need for establishing cross-generational solidarities, because not just for strategic reasons, but on principle, they could be a kind of new universal class, thinking of themselves as acting for the sake of everyone.

Absolutely.

You know, I feel bad even in our conversation that it's easy to slip into a dichotomy of age versus youth.

But actually, it's...

age versus everyone else and that would most of all from my perspective include the the broad middle of those in the prime of their lives who are under resourced who are you know uh stagnating uh and and and haven't been uh bequeathed by their elders whether within their families or on a social basis with

in a sense, their inheritance, which is resources when they could most use them to make our world a better and more creative place.

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