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I can’t wait until we get enough Millenials in power to peg the retirement age to life expectancy.
by dforrestwilson 6y ago
I can’t wait until we get enough Millenials in power to peg the retirement age to life expectancy.
- gonzo41 6y agoAs a millenial. I'd much rather just have a 3.5 day working week.
- icedchai 6y agoWe already have that for most jobs, especially in software. You just have to pretend to work the other 1.5.
- anonuser123456 6y agoI've always found it much more challenging to pretend to work than to just work.
- looping__lui 6y agoYeah, let’s instead have the Baby Boomer drive the deficit “beyond affordable for any generation”, destroy health care once and for all and make education and university really unaffordable. And make any change structurally impossible and shoot up everyone who doesn’t like the system they are left in. I’m from Europe and “our” previous generations nicely screwed all the ones after - but the US is just insane.
- dang 6y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into generational flamewar. We definitely don't need that here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- jb775 6y agoOr just peg social security collection age to life expectancy and reduce payments. It's kind of insane that everyone knows millennials are worse off than their parents were, but are expected to pay the bills of the failed social security system. It's a dick move for boomers to collect full social security and act like they deserve it.
- apta 6y agoProbably a good idea to just do away with social security entirely and leave those wages with their actual owners.
- icedchai 6y agoProbably not. Most Americans won't save and won't invest if they do.
- apta 6y agoIt should at least be an option for those who want to opt-out of it in return of not expecting social security in return.
- aaomidi 6y agoSo what happens when they retire and have no money
- apta 6y agoActions have consequences. Secondly, other societies have already solved this issue by means of a charity tax that is much more affordable than social security: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakat
- aaomidi 6y ago> Actions have consequences. So you're fine with these people just outright dying on the street? Also as someone who lived in system that had Zakat, it was supplemented with state-sponsored retirement.
- vkou 6y agoLife expectancy for blue collar, or white collar workers?
- looping__lui 6y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into generational flamewar. We definitely don't need that here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html