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I long ago stopped taking Team Libertarian seriously, and by that I mean members of the Libertarian-Industrial Complex, not small-l civil libertarians. But to explain in it in the way that even their 3-year-old brains can maybe understand, any modern society is going to have a lot of old people. Many of them won't be able work to earn an income to support themselves, and some of them won't have enough savings either. Some of these people maybe were "irresponsible" during their working life, and some of them might be destitute because of medical bills. Some of them might have just lived a bit longer than they expected to. But regardless, the question is what does society do to deal with this inevitable chunk of the population. One answer is, of course, let them freeze to death on the streets, though that isn't my preferred choice. Alternatively, I suppose, we could put them on the SUPERTRAIN to Galt's Gulch.