How many people do we know, maybe even ourselves, feel things like, “Well, I got out while the getting was good. I don’t know how it will be or how those still there will handle things. They won’t have it as good as I did, and their retirement won’t be as good.” Most people don’t say it, few even think it consciously. But that’s what they do. They leave the place, and the society, worse off. They didn’t make a positive difference, and only contributed to the problem. Sure, they probably got beat up and tired and understandably just wanted to get away from it all, but they are shirking their responsibility to the next generations.
People are not leaving things better; they aren’t even leaving it as good. And yet somehow they think that the weakened and depleted system will still support them in their retirement years? Maybe for a while, but it’s illusion and delusion; it can’t last.
Descendants will wonder at us and our intelligence/wisdom (or deficiency thereof), and maybe despise us, at how we knowingly refused to face up to reality, to face up to our responsibilities, to the utter messes we left them.
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