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As someone who spends quite a bit of his time counting the sand in the hourglass that is one of his relatives' retirement funds... There's no definite win-stra
by shadowgovt 3y ago
As someone who spends quite a bit of his time counting the sand in the hourglass that is one of his relatives' retirement funds...
There's no definite win-strategy here. It is possible to die young. It is possible to outlive your savings and live a miserable final years. We can't guarantee a happy solution.
(Well, TBF, we could decrease the misery of the one option by deeply funding social security, not to sustain it but to raise to a higher standard of living than previous generations ever knew because we currently live in a world with a higher productive capacity than previous generations ever knew. So I'm speaking of transient political reality and not concrete laws of the universe.)
- unmole 3y ago> Well, TBF, we could decrease the misery of the one option by deeply funding social security, Take from the young (poor) to pay the old (rich). Yeah, that sounds amazing, where do I sign up? /s
- shadowgovt 3y agoNot necessarily. The source of funding for social security was an arbitrary decision. We could fund it with a wealth tax.