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Essay arguing for the Hanson Scheme of Social Security where retirement is directly funded by your children. Hanson Scheme alone fails in too many circumstances but perhaps a hybrid model might work?
I can think of a few failure modes for the Hanson Scheme off the top of my head from personal experience. What if you don't have a disability but your children do? Say if your children are born with genetic disorders that lower their life expectancy and therefore their earnings potential. Or set aside genetic disorders completely. How do we deal with good parents who raise their children well into adulthood but then the kids die in an accident? How do you decide what is in the parent's control and what isn't? Is there a way to distinguish between people who go to dangerous places and work for little pay in a situation where it isn't safe to raise a family from the people who don't have a family for more selfish reasons and should therefore use the extra money they got from not having to invest in children for their own retirement?
The author also brings up IVF or adoption as a solution for infertility, but how do we handle people people who don't use IVF because of religious reasons?
Perhaps adoption would be the final fallback, but even then it would still disincentivize people from adopting older children where their previous parents still probably have more of an impact on them than you.
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