Tools to Enlighten
OPINION and ANALYSIS: Artificial intelligence is going to cause massive unemploytment. Social security is going to be insolvent sometime around 2033. A major cause of the insolvency is that the United States is not having enough babies to maintain the required worker/retiree ratio to keep social security afloat. Should this not cause us to Read More …
[ANALYSIS and OPINION] [Preliminary Note 3/26/26: About a year after this blog post was published Senator Whitehouse (D-RI.) made a very sensible proposal, that naturally called for higher taxes on the earnings of wealthy individuals to help fund the social security solvency crises which by March 2026 was estimated to occur in 2032. That Read More …
[OPINION and ANALYSIS.] [Author’s Note: CAUTION: The following is the result of a series of prompts (commands) to ChatGPT 4.5 and GPT Plus over a period of several days. We have not actually run (calculated) these numbers at reasonandbalance.com and thus make no guarantees as to their accurateness. Chat and AI sometimes make Read More …
[ANALYSIS and OPINION.] We’ve done a few videos on the solvency of social security and how it is very much affected by birth and immigration rates. This is a complex subject. We hope that the following provides a sound basis for all discussions on this extremely important subject. Below is the response to Read More …
[ANALYSIS and OPINION] This 3 minute video is possibly one of the most important we’ve done. Why? Because demographics and demographic trends will have a major affect on social, economic and political trends well into the foreseeable future. Our big concern is that these trends will tend to fuel the creeping acceptance of Read More …