Why not encourage young people to eat fatty food, drive recklessly and start smoking?

The overweight person dies at fifty and the pensions crisis disappears. Think of some of the advertisements you would see if it were taken up by the government. Asked by spikejones 42 months ago Similar questions: encourage young people eat fatty food drive recklessly start smoking Society.

Similar questions: encourage young people eat fatty food drive recklessly start smoking.

It doesn't balance Believe me, economists have thought about it. Here is a lengthy analysis of death rates, smoking incidence, wage earning, etc. Among smokers and the effect on social security, complete with tables and equations. Their conclusion: smokers do, in fact, transfer money to non-smokers via social security.

But that's not the whole story. Fatty food and smoking cause chronic diseases, not acute ones. That is, you die long and slow, from cancer and diabetes.

Even heart disease doesn't usually get you the first time, and you spend years visiting doctors, consuming cholesterol drugs, and even having bypass surgery. That costs a lot of money, some of it coming out of Medicare and Medicaid. More, ultimately, than we save in Social Security.

Reckless driving is a bit different. It causes acute problems, i.e. Instant death.

But there are two problems with that. While it removes you from the social security pool, it does so when you're young, before you've paid into Social Security. Society paid for your education all the way through high school, and were hoping to see you make some money and pay some taxes.

Maybe you just want to buy muscle cars with bad brakes for all of the 60 year olds, but that's the other problem: car crashes take out other people, too. Including young people, who as we just said we need to pay into the Social Security system.It also costs a lot in road closures, slowing the economy in general. So I applaud you for thinking outside the box, but when you look at the big picture it does more harm than good.

Well, probably because it's considered impolite to encourage others to kill themselves just so that there's more left over for you. Especially when you're talking about young people, who tend to be dumb enough to listen. Besides, if the goal was to free up resources, you'd probably want to be more efficient about murdering people.

After all, none of the examples you mentioned kill people on a schedule. Fatty food could (and probably will) induce heart disease, but it would take some time, and in the meantime, the person is using insurance or some kind other kind of assistance to pay for all of the treatments. Driving recklessly might not kill; maybe it'll just maim the person, who'll end up with some very expensive medical bills and disability payments over a very long period of time.

(Not to mention the fact that it endangers so many other people, who may not even smoke or eat cholesterol! ) And smoking? Aside from endangering others with second hand smoke, smoking is also going to cause a long, protracted, expensive death.

I don't really think people need encouragement to make bad choices; they seem to do well enough on their own. I'd hope that a government that did start promoting these kinds of things wouldn't stay in power very long. Cute advertisements aside, I'd see an assassination in that particular leader's future.

That would free up some pension funds, wouldn't it? .

The only flaw with that scenario is that then the cost of medical care skyrockets. The social security/pension plan can be fixed if we'd get some lawmakers with some intelligence and balls to do what's right for the country, but increased use of the medical system and subsequent costs associated with it can only be fixed by socializing the medical system and taking the profit motive out of it. Schelli's Recommendations Never Be Sick Again: Health is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It Amazon List Price: $14.95 Used from: $7.80 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 33 reviews) .

5 If you haven't noticed, they've already done that and it didn't work. Perhaps we could reduce the surplus population by euthanizing people who make really stupid suggestions.

If you haven't noticed, they've already done that and it didn't work. Perhaps we could reduce the surplus population by euthanizing people who make really stupid suggestions.

6 Or perhaps a more modest proposal. If a certain percentage of children were eaten it would decrease population and reduce late life retirement and medical care costs and other social disruptions resulting from excess population. It would be a win-win situation: more protein in the national diet and lower costs for society as a whole.

Or perhaps a more modest proposal. If a certain percentage of children were eaten it would decrease population and reduce late life retirement and medical care costs and other social disruptions resulting from excess population. It would be a win-win situation: more protein in the national diet and lower costs for society as a whole.

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