“To tackle big problems, we need more freedom, not less. Only world-leading entrepreneurs and businesses can stimulate the new discoveries and technologies that will enable us to deal with super-castropic risks. It is not collective sacrifice but a new wave of radical individualism that fuses classical ideals of liberty with a renewed sense of personal responsibility (not least when it comes to health) that will make our country more resilient.”
– Sherelle Jacobs, Daily Telegraph (£)
This was also good from the same article:
Many people are dimly aware that things cannot go on as they are. But as Ms Jacobs said, it is heresy to raise the alarm.
In an ideal world I would prefer not to have a public sector to reform and not to have a state-mandated retirement age at all. But I would strongly prefer to get my wish by other means than the collapse of the present system, with all the misery for poor people and old people that would entail.
How ironic that the blind allegiance of many people to the exact current model, allowing for no adjustment to changed circumstances, is the most likely thing to destroy it.