On: Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009)

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How the hell did this get published in Genome Biology? Is it a scam journal or something?

This isn't biology. It's economics - amateur economics. There's a whole field on the public economics of social security systems. The amazing insight this guy is touting has been common knowledge for, oh, twenty years. You don't even need to be an academic. Just read The Economist once in a while.

Sheesh.

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It's in their 'comment' section. Perhaps they had a special issue or something with opinion piees

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Yes. It's more like a blog post.