Millennials, Gen X and Gen Z say the system needs reform, an exclusive Newsweek poll found, amid fears the benefits won’t exist when they come to retire

Younger generations in the U.S., including millennials and Gen Zers, are much more likely to believe that the Social Security system needs reforming than those in their 60s and 70s, according to a recent survey conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies on behalf of Newsweek.

Some 40 percent of respondents said they believe that the Social Security program currently pays out more to retirees than it is receiving in Social Security tax payments, while 26 percent disagreed with this statement.

Gen Zers (ages 18-26), millennials (ages 27-42) and Gen Xers (ages 43-58) were more likely than boomers (59 and older) to think that Social Security should be reformed.

  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Lol. You’re trying too hard to be a badass.

    No one gets arrested for “striking”. You can’t be forced to go to work. An “illegal strike” just means that you aren’t protected by labor laws and can be fired for it. Normal strike actions are protected by labor laws and you can’t be fired for that reason.

    I suggest you stop trying to be tough and learn more about what you can do legally. Organizing a union is a lot harder and more useful than just randomly being arrested.

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      1 year ago

      I think you are projecting pretty hard my guy, you know almost nothing about me so you fill the gaps with reflections of your own state.

      Nearly every meaningful change in labor was bought in blood, this is historical fact.

      I don’t say this as a badass but as an exhausted, economically stagnant skilled professional at the time of my life where I should be thinking about retiring but instead coming to the acceptance that without putting my face at risk of a baton that no meaningful change will come about in time and I will die working to make other people wealthy.

      There is a desperation that comes from decades of bad economic policy where 68% of the nation lives paycheck to paycheck and 78% of the nation is one medical emergency away from poverty. Sure people like you might misinterpret this as being ‘badass’ instead of angry and desperate. But that’s because your perspective of the world was shaped more by media than by actually experiencing it.

      So I don’t blame you, but you really need to grow up because the world that is coming won’t be kind to edgelads like you.