• echutaaa@sh.itjust.works
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      12 hours ago

      lol it was always just extra income tax to anyone under 40. Only fools expected to see that money come back.

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        12 hours ago

        It was always a substitute for paying to maintain your parents or grandparents in retirement. Unless you’re an immigrant, you’ve already been getting it back.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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          10 hours ago

          Your parents and grandparents also paid contributions, didn’t they?

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            7 hours ago

            The money they paid was so that their parents and grandparents had a little something going into retirement.

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              38 minutes ago

              Exactly. It’s a system that works almost entirely as a pay-as-you-go system, with each generation paying for the retirement of their elders.