silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoDOGE follows longtime Musk pattern — and turns attention to Social Security Administrationwww.semafor.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1215arrow-down12
arrow-up1213arrow-down1external-linkDOGE follows longtime Musk pattern — and turns attention to Social Security Administrationwww.semafor.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squareThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·14 hours agoYou should fight to get the money you paid back instead of just rolling over and letting them rob you.
minus-squareechutaaa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·13 hours agolol it was always just extra income tax to anyone under 40. Only fools expected to see that money come back.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·13 hours agoIt was always a substitute for paying to maintain your parents or grandparents in retirement. Unless you’re an immigrant, you’ve already been getting it back.
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 hours agoYour parents and grandparents also paid contributions, didn’t they?
minus-squaremeeeeetch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 hours agoThe money they paid was so that their parents and grandparents had a little something going into retirement.
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoAre your parents paid out according to your contributions or their own?
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoExactly. It’s a system that works almost entirely as a pay-as-you-go system, with each generation paying for the retirement of their elders.
You should fight to get the money you paid back instead of just rolling over and letting them rob you.
lol it was always just extra income tax to anyone under 40. Only fools expected to see that money come back.
It was always a substitute for paying to maintain your parents or grandparents in retirement. Unless you’re an immigrant, you’ve already been getting it back.
Your parents and grandparents also paid contributions, didn’t they?
The money they paid was so that their parents and grandparents had a little something going into retirement.
Are your parents paid out according to your contributions or their own?
Exactly. It’s a system that works almost entirely as a pay-as-you-go system, with each generation paying for the retirement of their elders.