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This boils down to a "Might makes right" claim. It doesn't answer the question why. Only how.
by foxyv 8mo ago
This boils down to a "Might makes right" claim. It doesn't answer the question why. Only how.
- paxys 8mo agoWhat question do you want answered exactly? Why we have governments and not anarchy?
- foxyv 8mo agoWhy does the government get to decide when we retire?
- paxys 8mo agoLike I said, they don't. You can retire today. They decide when you get access to a national retirement plan. Citizens of the country vote for that plan and how it is implemented.
- foxyv 8mo agoI personally could retire today. Most people can't. There is no referendum I remember where we decided to raise the retirement age. It seems like our government just kind of decided to do so.
- seanmcdirmid 8mo agoCouldn’t you say the same thing about social security or pensions? There is a lot of economic forces that direct people to work until a certain age, the government controlling a benefit is only one of them. As to why, you’ll need to dissect representative democracies in Singapore’s case.
- rayiner 8mo ago[flagged]
- foxyv 8mo agoYou apparently know very little about me. Edit: Although, when my time comes as it inevitably will, I think the wilderness would be a nice place to do it. Maybe in a tree.
- jonahx 8mo agoIt definitely answers why. You are asking for an appeal to some moral justification. But there isn't one, and it doesn't matter. That's the whole point of "might makes right".
- foxyv 8mo agoIn an attempt to steelman, you are saying: "There is no moral justification for the government setting a retirement age, but they are able to. So it doesn't matter."
- philwelch 8mo agoThe government doesn’t set the retirement age. You can retire whenever you want. There are no laws against a 50 year old retiring and living off his own savings, nor against a 70 year old continuing to work. There is a minimum age to collect old age benefits from the government. The justification for that should be obvious.
- mothballed 8mo agoBut the CPF isn't represented as benefits from the government. It's represented and claimed to be your own savings that you have set aside. At gamed bond rates where the government skims off the top.
- foxyv 8mo agoThe choice between working and starving to death is not a choice. If your savings have been taken by the government, then you don't have a choice. The justification is to force people to work until they are too old to do so. Then steal whatever they have left with medical bills and price hikes on necessities.
- philwelch 8mo agoAnd if I was emperor, I would abolish payroll taxes and phase out Social Security. Unfortunately, we live in a democracy.
- itemize123 8mo agoso the country can be productive? so it can have resources to fulfil duties to citizens?