• yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    I kind of assumed it was till we all died at this point. Whether that’s before or after 70…

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      9 days ago

      Don’t believe that horseshit “we don’t have money for Social Security” conservative talking point.

      1. We have money just not the way it’s currently funded
      2. Cutting social security is political suicide

      The only way social security goes away is if conservatives think they can win an election without old people. Fat chance.

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        9 days ago

        Republicans will take away social security, blame Democrats, and their voters will believe them.

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        9 days ago

        The contribution limit was invented decades ago when wealth inequality wasn’t as bad of an issue

        If we got rid of the cap, we’d have no problem finding it. And the people above the cap, just don’t need the money anyways.

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          9 days ago

          How many decades ago? Because I seem to be able to trace a wealth gap dating back to days that may or may not have even happened. We don’t know, because recording history on written paper was considered offensive. And religion itself isn’t the best source of info, I get that, but Jesus’s whole existence was supposed to be the whole magic trick of “feed a whole village with one loaf of bread”. With the idea that the whole villiage was full of poor people, and he was providing aid against their hunger.

          And in order for that to even be believable in any sense, you first have to be able to agree on the idea that a wealth gap between the elite and the poor was already in existence.

          Again, not that religion is reliable in any official sense, but it does help paint the picture that shit’s always been bad.

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        9 days ago

        All they have to do is take it away from future generations while allowing the current elderly generation keep it.

        The old voters stay happy and the politicians who screw everyone over are long gone by the time the implications hit.

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        9 days ago

        No lie. I asked a financial advisor when I was in my late 20s, almost 30-years ago.

        “You’re getting your Social Security or there will be riots in the streets. Plan accordingly.”

        In 1989 we high school seniors said we wouldn’t get Social Security. We will, no matter what.

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    9 days ago

    My disability insurance (private, not public) specifically ends when I’m 60 (or before, if they can find a reason to disqualify me), so it’s basically built in that I won’t be able to retire.

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    9 days ago

    This is very, very bad for the future outlook of our country. It’s real, we’re in it. Something significant is going to have to change soon.

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    9 days ago

    My math says I will work till I can’t and then will have to accept a lower quality of life for whats left and my wife and I end up on medicaid in a nursing home.

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    7 days ago

    F all this nonsense. I plan to die of cancer or something way before that lol. WTF would I want to be 70 in this capitalist hellscape