Samuel Moyn
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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Well, there's a lot there.
Absolutely.
And it was a very moving peroration.
I will say that I believe very deeply that we've created a society in which it is rational to hoard because we will live indefinitely long.
We know from the pandemic that the state of care to which we're entitled at the end of our lives is horrendous.
I mean, horrifying.
And it is completely understandable that one would stash away everything one could to avoid that fate.
It's also because, as you say, we've moved away from the intergenerational family, which we could revive, but we could also revive intergenerational community.
And that also has gone by the boards.
There's enormous age segregation in the way we live residentially.
Part of the reason is that older people control the best real estate, but also because I think there is a kind of alienation where young people no longer want to support
not just their aging parents, but older people in their society generally.
And so, you know, on remedies, I think we have to do something culturally to overcome these problems.
What to me is not a viable solution is to have older people retain so much that they, in a sense, disinherit the future.
Because they are convinced that they will have to spend down an enormous amount just to survive till the end.
But what is this?
There are.
Look, you've got to be right, and I'm not trying to downplay the immense complication of these policy domains, but we also know there's a lot of rationalization involved in, let's call it hoarding.
And there are a lot of reasons one has for not
pivoting to more intergenerational generosity.
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