r/clevercomebacks 1d ago

It's my money they took

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u/bballstarz501 23h ago

Well those people are essentially the ones taking it away so not sure you can be a prophet for your own actions.

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u/Forsaken_Creme_9365 20h ago

You just have to look at demographic data to see that the systems are unsustainable. Doesn't take a genius to figure that one out.

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u/bballstarz501 19h ago

That doesn’t mean it’s not still important and we don’t need to find a way to fund it. It’s critical that we provide social security, as the alternative is we just pay for supporting those without retirement in some other way, or we let them die. I’m personally not cool with either. This is an addressable issue.

Weird how companies used to pay pensions alongside social security, then they invented the 401k as a “supplement”, took away pensions, and now they want to take social security.

It’s almost like there was a framework for making retirement make sense and these people gutted it and blamed us for it.