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Torchlight_Crimson comments on Open Thread Feb 29 - March 6, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Torchlight_Crimson 03 March 2016 08:35:23AM 3 points [-]

How about the various welfare states around the world finally starting to run out of other people's money. The biggest manifestations of this so far have been the financial crisis in the EU, and the various pension crises in US local governments.

Heck, in my more conspiratorial moods I'm inclined to suspect that these migrant crises are an excuse to import a bunch of convenient scapegoats who can than be blamed for the collapse of popular entitlement programs.

Comment author: Lumifer 03 March 2016 03:57:55PM *  1 point [-]

How about the various welfare states around the world finally starting to run out of other people's money.

That's not one of the events "that have transpired mostly in the last 6 months" :-)

But yes, I'm watching Japan with great interest :-D