So you're right, there is no general market you can look at now today, that will tell you,

现在没有这样一个市场能告诉你
suppose we pay a fixed amount of money for the average person in the economy,

如果你平均付给每个人一笔钱
what's the present value of that?

它的现值是多少
However, that doesn't mean we couldn't have a market like that.

但这不意味着我们不能有这样一个市场
And so my solution is going to involve precisely a market like that.

解决它的办法是组建一个类似的市场
So to answer his question, it's not inherently impossible

回答这个问题
to attach a market price to paying somebody for the rest of his life.

找到一个能付给某人余生的市场不大可能
After all, you could imagine Social Security now,

现在可以想象一下有这样一个社保
paying, let's say 50 million people,

付给五千万人福利
the people who are now retired, each of them is going to be

这些人已经退休了
paid for the rest of his life according to a rule, which we all understand.

每个人都根据一些我们都知道的规则
It just goes up with inflation.

就是随着通胀率上升