alt Hacker News>We don't need a child or 5 to take care of us when we're older, we have a 401k and an HSA for that. There are pros and cons there.
Automation notwithstanding, a 401k and HSA merely represents a portion of labor from someone else’s child(ren).
>We don't need a child or 5 to take care of us when we're older, we have a 401k and an HSA for that. There are pros and cons there.
Automation notwithstanding, a 401k and HSA merely represents a portion of labor from someone else’s child(ren).
Well you can abstract it a bit and just say that anything you buy or own is a portion of someone else's labor, even automation, because someone owns the machine or built it.
But I think that it's still different from having kids who help you. The 401k (and similar style schemes) are primarily a western phenomenon. Without them we'd have to have a lot more children, I think.