The Tyee has published my article The Eubie Blake Economy. Excerpt:
In the 1980s and 1990s, I used to give talks to teachers on how seniors would demand government support at the cost of education and other social services. Yet, I said, those seniors would need a highly educated and very productive working population that could support it
I was half right. Yes, workers in the next few decades will have to be highly skilled and intensely productive to support both seniors and their own children.
But it won't be a cut-throat competition between a minority of kids and a majority of selfish seniors. Instead, it will be an alliance of youth and age, each caring for the other.
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