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artisinaltoday at 6:47 AM2 repliesview on HN

Step one will result in the collapse of the pension system. We need to first make the pension system more robust before proceeding to roll out air conditioning across the continent.


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bevekspldnwtoday at 10:00 AM

Lack of air conditioning is leading to massive excess deaths among the elderly during heat waves.

Culling out the elderly during the annual heat waves is quickly becoming a European tradition.

That said…refusing to adopt AC may be Europe’s de facto solution to the pension crisis!

I thought it was was foolish insanity, but now I understand it’s just sound pension policy.

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dv_dttoday at 7:35 AM

I have noticed that austerity first economics is correlated with poor economic performance. There is no avoiding change and the question is if nations lean into the change or wall themselves into isolation and stagnation