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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you're describing is pretty common.  Unfortunately, it often comes from an [b]"I got mine"  mentality [/b]that prioritizes the aging population to the detriment of the whole (think, for Social Security spending but against early education spending). I don't know you or your beliefs, but I'd urge anybody in your situation to make sure changing views are not purely self-interested or short-sighted.

- grew up in a town without a high school because the graying population bulldozed it rather than pay property taxes to fund it[/quote]

I don't see it as "I got mine" mentality. It's more of an "I worked for mine, why don't you work for yours" mentality. [/quote]

Overestimating your own efforts and underestimating the efforts of those around you is an almost unavoidable cognitive bias, since you inevitably have more information about your experience. Did you build present day society from single-called organisms? No. Then you have a lot of other people to be grateful to and a lot of investment in society that made it possible for you to work for yours. It's disgusting how easy it is for some people to forget this.[/quote]

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