Samuel Moyn

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · 7/23/26: War Historically Unpopular, AI Hack Meltdown, Old People Debate · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

And that's a crime and we should address it.

And that's part of my case.

What the neoliberals say, because they're with me on housing, is really that

entitlements are too expensive.

And to have intergenerational justice, we need to cut entitlements.

I think it's actually the reverse, that what we need to do is move to single-payer socialized care so that the expense of medical care

raise taxes, which means we will get older people who are typically the rich ones to pay if they have the means.

On means testing for Social Security, I steer away from that because the traditional view about Social Security is that it's popular only because it's a universal program that everyone gets.

And there's no reason to interfere with that universality

if we take those rich people who are collecting Social Security anyway and just raise their taxes, not reduce their Social Security payment, but increase their taxes, including on the housing they control.

And so the main question is who pays and

The rich older people should a lot more than they do.

That doesn't mean we have to destroy the entitlement state.

I'm not against that at all.

I agree mostly with you.

The only place I might resist is when you say it's either or.

So it's true that we should tax the rich no matter their age.

However, we also have a lot of formal privileges for older people that younger people don't have, and they're also financial privileges.

And so taxation is one thing, but if we just tax without regard to age and focus on wealth, we won't even have seen, let alone targeted, all of those other

privileges, especially involving housing and land and property that older people have built into the system.

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