8 ms·

>In addition to the layoffs and buyouts, the National Geographic Society said it would freeze its pension plan for eligible employees, eliminate medical coverag

by Loughla 11y ago

>In addition to the layoffs and buyouts, the National Geographic Society said it would freeze its pension plan for eligible employees, eliminate medical coverage for future retirees and change its contributions to an employee 401(k) plan so that all employees receive the same percentage contribution. Of all of it, this pisses me off the most. Because who needs a retirement? Thanks for your years of hard work, here's a 401(k) fucking income supplement. Oh, and no medical coverage for you. Have fun working until you die.

aianus 11y ago
Pension plans are a terrible idea. Read 'Why I left Goldman Sachs' to see how so-called professionals manage pension money. Just give me the cash money now and I'll invest it myself, thank you very much.
- Loughla 11y ago
  No they're not. They're a great idea. If idiots are left in charge of them, then yes, they're a bad idea. But that sort of applies to everything. I, for one, will deal with some idiocy to guarantee a safe and secure retirement. I have neither the time, energy, nor expertise to actively manage my retirement funds. So that's my trade-off. Calling a 401(k) a replacement for pensions is disingenuous. They're ridiculously cheaper for employers and provide a much, much less valuable return for employees. Regardless of who is in charge, the switch has nothing to do with the people managing them and only to do with saving the company money.
  - aianus 11y ago
    > I, for one, will deal with some idiocy to guarantee a safe and secure retirement. The potential for idiocy negates any guarantee for a safe and secure retirement. If they're idiots they'll lose your money. Anyways, if that's your preference why not take the cash and give the money to an investment manager of your choosing? Why let your employer choose the investment manager and force it on all your coworkers? > Regardless of who is in charge, the switch has nothing to do with the people managing them and only to do with saving the company money. Oh yeah, no doubt. But hypothetically, given the same present value, I would rather take cash over a pension plan that may or may not be managed well and exist in 40 years.
  - forgetsusername 11y ago
    >I, for one, will deal with some idiocy to guarantee a safe and secure retirement. There's no magic behind the management of pension funds; they're utilizing the same markets. So how can they "guarantee a safe and secure retirement"? They can't and that's the problem with them. During boom times they promise the world and in lean times they go bust, or worse, put the onus to pay for it on the next generation (while those people face cuts to their future benefits). No thanks.
    - Spooky23 11y ago
      Most individual investors in 401k plans get ripped off. They get funneled into high cost funds, get levied high fees and end up with poor investment options. Then when they finally retire, they get ripped off again by annuity providers. Pensions are almost always better for the worker. The issues on the employer side are almost always a result of underfunding, or “diversion" of employee funds for some short term crisis.
      - ghaff 11y ago
        >Pensions are almost always better for the worker. The issues on the employer side are almost always a result of underfunding, or “diversion" of employee funds for some short term crisis. So they're a better deal except when they're not in that you can lose it all or have your benefits drastically reduced through bankruptcy etc. More broadly, defined-benefit pension plans were designed for a world where you expected to work your career at the same organization. Pensions tend to make it very expensive to move around companies. (Hence, people in the US military sticking around for their 20 year mark for example.) It's very much a related problem to health care being tied to employment.
  - Someone1234 11y ago
    You're under-selling 401Ks and over-selling pensions. I just started a job in government. I had two choices: 10% of my salary in a 401K, or 5% of my salary in a 401K and 5% in a pension. I selected the full 10% in a 401K and let me explain why: - The 401K can follow me job to job. The pension is tied to this employer. - If I quit this job or get fired before 65, I lose a good chunk of my pension, however my 401K remains safe. - The pension is largely a "black box." Money goes in, and I have zero control over how it is invested or what their fees are. - If I retire at 62 I lose 10%(!) of my pension, if I retire at 60 I lose 15%(!). 401K doesn't care when I retire, just when I withdraw the money (e.g. I could live on other savings from 62-65). - If I die before retirement there are a complex set of rules deciding what percentage my spouse receives (summary: less than me, almost always). - If I die on a 401K, my spouse receives 100% of the money as long as they cash it after their retirement (for tax reasons). - I can invest it all in a nice safe diversified index fund with extremely low management fees (the management fees on other funds alone between now and retirement could wind up costing me almost a years salary!). - The 401K money vests in 4 years. The pension money effectively vests in 20 years (takes 20 years to receive a really crappy pension). Pensions have a lot of asterisk/gotchas/limitations/etc. The devil is in the details. 401K requires some self-management, but removes most of the limitations, and you can receive a good retirement as long as you put it somewhere relatively safe, diversified, and inexpensive. Plus if you die then either your spouse OR kids massively "win" with a 401K. A pension definitely doesn't protect their interests.
    - smacktoward 11y ago
      > The pension is largely a "black box." Money goes in, and I have zero control over how it is invested or what their fees are. The vast majority of people are absolutely terrible at picking investments, so this is a feature, not a bug.
      - Someone1234 11y ago
        401Ks allow you to move the money between different managed funds. The main difference is choice: With a pension someone else decides which funds, with a 401K you decide which funds. You don't need to be a financial expert to pick a managed fund. Just look at the fees and history and decide. A pension is like being locked into one managed fund the entire time no matter how poorly it performs or how high the fees go. Plus some pensions don't diversify enough. I'm sure Enron's former employees will tell you all about it.
- Spooky23 11y ago
  FYI. The same people ignoring their fiduciary responsibility are managing your mutual funds.
mistermann 11y ago
Do you know of a magical source of money from which we can fund the rights you seem to think are being denied? Snark aside, I think we have an extremely big problem on our hands, in a sense this big bucket of money does exist, it is in the bank accounts of the 1%. Now who that money "belongs" to is kind of a fun but futile philosophical argument, the fact of the matter is a LOT of people are going to be reaching retirement age without the funds necessary to sustain an even remotely pleasant lifestyle, with (in my opinion) very little correlation to each individual's contribution to society throughout their lifetime.
- forgetsusername 11y ago
  >a LOT of people are going to be reaching retirement age without the funds necessary to sustain an even remotely pleasant lifestyle Your inane snark about "the 1%" aside (whom, by definition, own the big bucket of money. Not exactly a revelation), I agree that the lack of money that most people have saved for retirement is going to be a disaster. It's equally bad up here in Canada.
  - mistermann 11y ago
    How is that remark inane? As I see it, the concentration of wealth in the top x% is precisely the problem we are facing. Our productive capacity of a society has never been higher, but the fruits of that labour are not being broadly distributed, and it is exacerbated in certain places (Canada being one) by the simultaneous existence of an absolutely massive real estate bubble. It's an excellent recipe for disaster.
- wtbob 11y ago
  > Snark aside, I think we have an extremely big problem on our hands, in a sense this big bucket of money does exist, it is in the bank accounts of the 1%. Now who that money "belongs" to is kind of a fun but futile philosophical argument, the fact of the matter is a LOT of people are going to be reaching retirement age without the funds necessary to sustain an even remotely pleasant lifestyle, with (in my opinion) very little correlation to each individual's contribution to society throughout their lifetime. That's what scares me to death. I've spent my entire working life scrimping and saving. I haven't had the fun lifestyles, the swanky apartments or the fancy cars that many others I've personally known have had. As a result, I have accumulated a sizable sum. Meanwhile, I personally know people a few years younger than me with zero savings, not even cash, who literally live paycheque to paycheque, despite making roughly what I make. When they are no longer able to work, the only possible thing will be for the State to rob that nest egg I've been accumulating and sacrificing for, in order to finance their retirements. Whether it's tax-deferred or tax-exempt, I know that I am going to lose the vast majority of that money. It'd be inhuman to let them starve on the street, and so my own dwindling years will be impoverished. I should have just lived high on the hog like everyone else.
something123 11y ago
Or you know.. set aside money for retirement on your own terms? I feel like recent history has shows that pension plans plans are a disaster for companies b/c you're just offsetting costs into the unknown future when you may not be able to afford it. (see american car companies and unionized labor) It also seems to attracts complacent people ie. lifers (see gov't sector) Though there are irritating artificial tax benefits, I always would rather get cold hard cash
- seivan 11y ago
  That's easier said than done in countries with high taxes. If people are supposed to save for yourself, don't lie to them claiming that their taxes will ensure a decent retirement.
  - something123 11y ago
    that's kinda a separate issue... that's maybe a problem with the tax system in the US?
- distances 11y ago
  At least in most of Europe that is not an option. There's no opt-out of national pension systems, except perhaps for entrepreneurs. On the plus side, your future pension is not dependent on the success of your employer, a much larger crisis (as in Greece now) is required before your retirement is in danger. On the minus side, it's dependent on the success and long-term planning of the country, and any kind of early retirement may be impossible/harshly penalized. Personally I would prefer to handle it on my own, but on the whole I really appreciate that everyone is guaranteed a stable and healthy retirement.
  - TheCoelacanth 11y ago
    The US has its own nationally administered pension scheme called "Social Security". The problem is that the amount that is pays is so small that anyone who wants to live better than a near-poverty-level lifestyle in retirement needs a private supplement.
igetspam 11y ago
All employees receive that same contribution makes you upset? My company contributes the same to everyone (0%). I don't have a pension either. Please get up in arms for me. Stupid startups and their fiscally responsible benefits! The company was doing badly. No new pensions. The company stays alive under new ownership, after cutting fat. This is probably bad business but the good business math would have been to let them fold. Take your pick.
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]
Agustus 11y ago
What is the role of the employer to provide any of these items, these are all archaic fringe benefits that obfuscate a wage and greatly enable large corporations to keep talent from moving to a new start-up. * The pension based retirement defined benefit plan is a bonus item that originated because the government encouraged it in the 1921 Revenue Act [1] by exempting pensions from being taxed as income. Then when the National Labor Relations Board "interpreted" the law 27 years later to include it as a benefit that was inclusive of employment did it become a larger liability. Large companies were able to absorb the costs of pensions being paid into the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation [2] after the 1974 setting of requirements, hurting the ability of small companies to set up comparable benefits. The slow death march of private based pensions follows the incentive curve and the movement to defined contribution for companies enables smaller companies to be more competitive with the big companies [3]. * The medical coverage one vexes me financially, as I do not know how guaranteed this is, of all the things that would be eliminated in a bankruptcy, this is most probable and would save the receiving company a lot of money. My point here is that the 401k and retirement program free of the company means you create an employee who has more worries about retirement, but is not locked into an employer's retirement pension contribution system. [1] http://www.ebri.org/publications/facts/index.cfm?fa=0398afact http://www.ebri.org/publications/facts/index.cfm?fa=0398afac... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corpo... [3] http://20somethingfinance.com/defined-benefit-vs-defined-contribution-retirement-plans/ http://20somethingfinance.com/defined-benefit-vs-defined-con...
- dredmorbius 11y ago
  Accident of history or not, retirement and health benefits offered through employers have been how such systems are funded in the US. The total value of the system is on the order of $18 trillion dollars, slightly more than the ~$15 trillion annual GDP. https://www.ici.org/pressroom/news/ret_10_q4 https://www.ici.org/pressroom/news/ret_10_q4 Too, employees have far more at stake, and far less negotiating power, than employees, a fact quite openly recognised in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (Book 1, Chapter 8: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/Chapter_8 https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_...) There's further a great deal of other infrastructure which reinforces the existing system, from tax and other laws based on employer-provided benefits (including substantial advantages to both employers and employees participating in such plans), and of the services industries built around these (it's far more economical, and actuarially defensible, to deal with groups of people, particularly large aggregates, than one-on-one). Which means that: 1. You cannot simply turn this ship on a dime. It's quite literally larger than the economy. 2. Changes to present employee benefits represents a material change in compensation and risk profile to those employees, for which they're poorly equipped to either address or organise against.
spacehome 11y ago
It's worth remembering that a pension is not an asset you own but rather a liability on the company's balance sheet and can be discharged in any one of a number of ways. I vastly prefer 401(k)s, IRAs or even taxable investment accounts because you not only actually own them, but they allow employees to decide for themselves how much they want to save for the future.
morgante 11y ago
The idea of having your retirement income be the responsibility of the employer is archaic and ridiculous. Thank god it's dying. It's a massive advantage for large corporations in their battle against innovative startups. Who would ever join a startup if it meant that you might be penniless in retirement? (Because you depended on a failed company instead of personal or social savings.)
- sliverstorm 11y ago
  I like your logic- to make sure startups and corporations are on a level playing field, let's take away everyone's retirement! It's not about catching up & competing, it's about dragging them down to our level!
  - morgante 11y ago
    First of all, I never said you should take away people's requirement. I think the total amount of money dedicated to retirement should be the same or more. Rather, it should be in the form of either individual accounts or nationalized.

by Loughla 11y ago

aianus 11y ago

Pension plans are a terrible idea. Read 'Why I left Goldman Sachs' to see how so-called professionals manage pension money. Just give me the cash money now and I'll invest it myself, thank you very much.

Loughla 11y ago
No they're not. They're a great idea. If idiots are left in charge of them, then yes, they're a bad idea. But that sort of applies to everything. I, for one, will deal with some idiocy to guarantee a safe and secure retirement. I have neither the time, energy, nor expertise to actively manage my retirement funds. So that's my trade-off. Calling a 401(k) a replacement for pensions is disingenuous. They're ridiculously cheaper for employers and provide a much, much less valuable return for employees. Regardless of who is in charge, the switch has nothing to do with the people managing them and only to do with saving the company money.
- aianus 11y ago
  > I, for one, will deal with some idiocy to guarantee a safe and secure retirement. The potential for idiocy negates any guarantee for a safe and secure retirement. If they're idiots they'll lose your money. Anyways, if that's your preference why not take the cash and give the money to an investment manager of your choosing? Why let your employer choose the investment manager and force it on all your coworkers? > Regardless of who is in charge, the switch has nothing to do with the people managing them and only to do with saving the company money. Oh yeah, no doubt. But hypothetically, given the same present value, I would rather take cash over a pension plan that may or may not be managed well and exist in 40 years.
- forgetsusername 11y ago
  >I, for one, will deal with some idiocy to guarantee a safe and secure retirement. There's no magic behind the management of pension funds; they're utilizing the same markets. So how can they "guarantee a safe and secure retirement"? They can't and that's the problem with them. During boom times they promise the world and in lean times they go bust, or worse, put the onus to pay for it on the next generation (while those people face cuts to their future benefits). No thanks.
  - Spooky23 11y ago
    Most individual investors in 401k plans get ripped off. They get funneled into high cost funds, get levied high fees and end up with poor investment options. Then when they finally retire, they get ripped off again by annuity providers. Pensions are almost always better for the worker. The issues on the employer side are almost always a result of underfunding, or “diversion" of employee funds for some short term crisis.
    - ghaff 11y ago
      >Pensions are almost always better for the worker. The issues on the employer side are almost always a result of underfunding, or “diversion" of employee funds for some short term crisis. So they're a better deal except when they're not in that you can lose it all or have your benefits drastically reduced through bankruptcy etc. More broadly, defined-benefit pension plans were designed for a world where you expected to work your career at the same organization. Pensions tend to make it very expensive to move around companies. (Hence, people in the US military sticking around for their 20 year mark for example.) It's very much a related problem to health care being tied to employment.
- Someone1234 11y ago
  You're under-selling 401Ks and over-selling pensions. I just started a job in government. I had two choices: 10% of my salary in a 401K, or 5% of my salary in a 401K and 5% in a pension. I selected the full 10% in a 401K and let me explain why: - The 401K can follow me job to job. The pension is tied to this employer. - If I quit this job or get fired before 65, I lose a good chunk of my pension, however my 401K remains safe. - The pension is largely a "black box." Money goes in, and I have zero control over how it is invested or what their fees are. - If I retire at 62 I lose 10%(!) of my pension, if I retire at 60 I lose 15%(!). 401K doesn't care when I retire, just when I withdraw the money (e.g. I could live on other savings from 62-65). - If I die before retirement there are a complex set of rules deciding what percentage my spouse receives (summary: less than me, almost always). - If I die on a 401K, my spouse receives 100% of the money as long as they cash it after their retirement (for tax reasons). - I can invest it all in a nice safe diversified index fund with extremely low management fees (the management fees on other funds alone between now and retirement could wind up costing me almost a years salary!). - The 401K money vests in 4 years. The pension money effectively vests in 20 years (takes 20 years to receive a really crappy pension). Pensions have a lot of asterisk/gotchas/limitations/etc. The devil is in the details. 401K requires some self-management, but removes most of the limitations, and you can receive a good retirement as long as you put it somewhere relatively safe, diversified, and inexpensive. Plus if you die then either your spouse OR kids massively "win" with a 401K. A pension definitely doesn't protect their interests.
  - smacktoward 11y ago
    > The pension is largely a "black box." Money goes in, and I have zero control over how it is invested or what their fees are. The vast majority of people are absolutely terrible at picking investments, so this is a feature, not a bug.
    - Someone1234 11y ago
      401Ks allow you to move the money between different managed funds. The main difference is choice: With a pension someone else decides which funds, with a 401K you decide which funds. You don't need to be a financial expert to pick a managed fund. Just look at the fees and history and decide. A pension is like being locked into one managed fund the entire time no matter how poorly it performs or how high the fees go. Plus some pensions don't diversify enough. I'm sure Enron's former employees will tell you all about it.
Spooky23 11y ago
FYI. The same people ignoring their fiduciary responsibility are managing your mutual funds.

mistermann 11y ago

Do you know of a magical source of money from which we can fund the rights you seem to think are being denied? Snark aside, I think we have an extremely big problem on our hands, in a sense this big bucket of money does exist, it is in the bank accounts of the 1%. Now who that money "belongs" to is kind of a fun but futile philosophical argument, the fact of the matter is a LOT of people are going to be reaching retirement age without the funds necessary to sustain an even remotely pleasant lifestyle, with (in my opinion) very little correlation to each individual's contribution to society throughout their lifetime.

forgetsusername 11y ago
>a LOT of people are going to be reaching retirement age without the funds necessary to sustain an even remotely pleasant lifestyle Your inane snark about "the 1%" aside (whom, by definition, own the big bucket of money. Not exactly a revelation), I agree that the lack of money that most people have saved for retirement is going to be a disaster. It's equally bad up here in Canada.
- mistermann 11y ago
  How is that remark inane? As I see it, the concentration of wealth in the top x% is precisely the problem we are facing. Our productive capacity of a society has never been higher, but the fruits of that labour are not being broadly distributed, and it is exacerbated in certain places (Canada being one) by the simultaneous existence of an absolutely massive real estate bubble. It's an excellent recipe for disaster.
wtbob 11y ago
> Snark aside, I think we have an extremely big problem on our hands, in a sense this big bucket of money does exist, it is in the bank accounts of the 1%. Now who that money "belongs" to is kind of a fun but futile philosophical argument, the fact of the matter is a LOT of people are going to be reaching retirement age without the funds necessary to sustain an even remotely pleasant lifestyle, with (in my opinion) very little correlation to each individual's contribution to society throughout their lifetime. That's what scares me to death. I've spent my entire working life scrimping and saving. I haven't had the fun lifestyles, the swanky apartments or the fancy cars that many others I've personally known have had. As a result, I have accumulated a sizable sum. Meanwhile, I personally know people a few years younger than me with zero savings, not even cash, who literally live paycheque to paycheque, despite making roughly what I make. When they are no longer able to work, the only possible thing will be for the State to rob that nest egg I've been accumulating and sacrificing for, in order to finance their retirements. Whether it's tax-deferred or tax-exempt, I know that I am going to lose the vast majority of that money. It'd be inhuman to let them starve on the street, and so my own dwindling years will be impoverished. I should have just lived high on the hog like everyone else.

something123 11y ago

Or you know.. set aside money for retirement on your own terms? I feel like recent history has shows that pension plans plans are a disaster for companies b/c you're just offsetting costs into the unknown future when you may not be able to afford it. (see american car companies and unionized labor) It also seems to attracts complacent people ie. lifers (see gov't sector) Though there are irritating artificial tax benefits, I always would rather get cold hard cash

seivan 11y ago
That's easier said than done in countries with high taxes. If people are supposed to save for yourself, don't lie to them claiming that their taxes will ensure a decent retirement.
- something123 11y ago
  that's kinda a separate issue... that's maybe a problem with the tax system in the US?
distances 11y ago
At least in most of Europe that is not an option. There's no opt-out of national pension systems, except perhaps for entrepreneurs. On the plus side, your future pension is not dependent on the success of your employer, a much larger crisis (as in Greece now) is required before your retirement is in danger. On the minus side, it's dependent on the success and long-term planning of the country, and any kind of early retirement may be impossible/harshly penalized. Personally I would prefer to handle it on my own, but on the whole I really appreciate that everyone is guaranteed a stable and healthy retirement.
- TheCoelacanth 11y ago
  The US has its own nationally administered pension scheme called "Social Security". The problem is that the amount that is pays is so small that anyone who wants to live better than a near-poverty-level lifestyle in retirement needs a private supplement.

igetspam 11y ago

All employees receive that same contribution makes you upset? My company contributes the same to everyone (0%). I don't have a pension either. Please get up in arms for me. Stupid startups and their fiscally responsible benefits! The company was doing badly. No new pensions. The company stays alive under new ownership, after cutting fat. This is probably bad business but the good business math would have been to let them fold. Take your pick.

deleted 11y ago
[deleted]

Agustus 11y ago

What is the role of the employer to provide any of these items, these are all archaic fringe benefits that obfuscate a wage and greatly enable large corporations to keep talent from moving to a new start-up. * The pension based retirement defined benefit plan is a bonus item that originated because the government encouraged it in the 1921 Revenue Act [1] by exempting pensions from being taxed as income. Then when the National Labor Relations Board "interpreted" the law 27 years later to include it as a benefit that was inclusive of employment did it become a larger liability. Large companies were able to absorb the costs of pensions being paid into the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation [2] after the 1974 setting of requirements, hurting the ability of small companies to set up comparable benefits. The slow death march of private based pensions follows the incentive curve and the movement to defined contribution for companies enables smaller companies to be more competitive with the big companies [3]. * The medical coverage one vexes me financially, as I do not know how guaranteed this is, of all the things that would be eliminated in a bankruptcy, this is most probable and would save the receiving company a lot of money. My point here is that the 401k and retirement program free of the company means you create an employee who has more worries about retirement, but is not locked into an employer's retirement pension contribution system. [1] http://www.ebri.org/publications/facts/index.cfm?fa=0398afact http://www.ebri.org/publications/facts/index.cfm?fa=0398afac... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corpo... [3] http://20somethingfinance.com/defined-benefit-vs-defined-contribution-retirement-plans/ http://20somethingfinance.com/defined-benefit-vs-defined-con...

dredmorbius 11y ago
Accident of history or not, retirement and health benefits offered through employers have been how such systems are funded in the US. The total value of the system is on the order of $18 trillion dollars, slightly more than the ~$15 trillion annual GDP. https://www.ici.org/pressroom/news/ret_10_q4 https://www.ici.org/pressroom/news/ret_10_q4 Too, employees have far more at stake, and far less negotiating power, than employees, a fact quite openly recognised in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (Book 1, Chapter 8: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/Chapter_8 https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_...) There's further a great deal of other infrastructure which reinforces the existing system, from tax and other laws based on employer-provided benefits (including substantial advantages to both employers and employees participating in such plans), and of the services industries built around these (it's far more economical, and actuarially defensible, to deal with groups of people, particularly large aggregates, than one-on-one). Which means that: 1. You cannot simply turn this ship on a dime. It's quite literally larger than the economy. 2. Changes to present employee benefits represents a material change in compensation and risk profile to those employees, for which they're poorly equipped to either address or organise against.

spacehome 11y ago

It's worth remembering that a pension is not an asset you own but rather a liability on the company's balance sheet and can be discharged in any one of a number of ways. I vastly prefer 401(k)s, IRAs or even taxable investment accounts because you not only actually own them, but they allow employees to decide for themselves how much they want to save for the future.

morgante 11y ago

The idea of having your retirement income be the responsibility of the employer is archaic and ridiculous. Thank god it's dying. It's a massive advantage for large corporations in their battle against innovative startups. Who would ever join a startup if it meant that you might be penniless in retirement? (Because you depended on a failed company instead of personal or social savings.)

sliverstorm 11y ago
I like your logic- to make sure startups and corporations are on a level playing field, let's take away everyone's retirement! It's not about catching up & competing, it's about dragging them down to our level!
- morgante 11y ago
  First of all, I never said you should take away people's requirement. I think the total amount of money dedicated to retirement should be the same or more. Rather, it should be in the form of either individual accounts or nationalized.