{"id":92282,"date":"2019-06-18T12:23:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T19:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-future-of-pensions-article"},"modified":"2019-06-18T12:23:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T19:23:26","slug":"the-future-of-pensions-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-future-of-pensions-article","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Pensions \u2013 Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-future-of-pensions-article.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/i> <\/b><em>The U.S. Transhumanist Party features this article by Nicola Bagal\u00e0 and Michael Nuschke of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/\">Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF)<\/a>, originally published on the LEAF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/the-future-of-pensions\/\">site<\/a> on May 15th, 2019. The article brings attention to and responds to concerns related to the impacts of increased longevity on pension systems, a possible result of our mission of ending age-related diseases, which the U.S. Transhumanist Party supports as part of our policy goals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>~ Brent Reitze,<\/em> <em>Director of Publication, United States Transhumanist Party, June 15th, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you work in social security, it\u2019s possible that your nightmares are full of undying elderly people who keep knocking on your door for pensions that you have no way of paying out. Tossing and turning in your bed, you beg for mercy, explaining that there\u2019s just too many old people who need pensions and not enough young people who could cover for it with their contributions; the money\u2019s just not there to sustain a social security system that, when it was conceived in the mid-1930s, didn\u2019t expect that many people would ever make it into their 80s and 90s. Your oneiric persecutors won\u2019t listen: they gave the country the best years of their lives, and now it\u2019s time for the country to pay them their due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: The U.S. Transhumanist Party features this article by Nicola Bagal\u00e0 and Michael Nuschke of the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF), originally published on the LEAF site on May 15th, 2019. The article brings attention to and responds to concerns related to the impacts of increased longevity on pension systems, a possible result of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,269,31,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-geopolitics","category-life-extension","category-policy","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}