Great job there Americans and a special shout out to White gen-X’ers for cutting your own soon to be retirement.

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    8 days ago

    While I agree the cap needs to be removed. The cap is only stopping you from subsidizing more of the working class. They are not subsidizing you. The payout is also capped. You’re effectively paying a portion of your contribution to boost the payout of multiple other people who contributed less during their careers

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      8 days ago

      The way I see it, sure it’s capped, but I work a pretty good, white collar job, I’m going to statistically live longer than my blue collar peers drawing more over time and end of the day. I’m going to get a whole lot more out than the average blue collar worker and end result is that the working class is going and are subsidizing those rich people who are living longer putting that drain on resources.

      That’s just the way i see it.

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        8 days ago

        That’s not the way the math works, regardless of how you “see it”.

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          7 days ago

          That is exactly the way the math works for anything resembling the concept of insurance.

          All of those programs are a form of insurance.

          You just don’t understand insurance.

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            7 days ago

            No. Social security is not funded the same way that insurance is. We’re talking about the funding here, so the comparison does not work.

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        7 days ago

        Why did you feel the need to say this twice?

        You’re now wing both times. Funding is very different from insurance, which was the entire point of this discussion.