If public funded retirement doesn't work, and private funded doesn't work, and individual funded doesn't work... what are we left with?
Cure aging. Seriously. The fundamental problem is that we have a rapidly increasing number of people who can't be economically productive due to physical and often mental decline, and who are very expensive to keep alive. Arguing about who should pay for all of this is just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.
We're about to enter the robot-age, during which most manual workers are going to lose their jobs. That's a lot of people who won't have much else to do other than look after old people like your children and mine.
Cure aging. Seriously. The fundamental problem is that we have a rapidly increasing number of people who can't be economically productive due to physical and often mental decline, and who are very expensive to keep alive. Arguing about who should pay for all of this is just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.