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The same as every generation. The whole reason Social Security was started here in the US is because there were so many indigent old people.
And it's been running out of money since forever, I always figured I'm just paying for my mom's generation and I won't get anything but my kids think they are paying for me and I will get social security but they won't.
Whatever. It was so difficult to work while raising a family, now they are grown it's not so bad, why not work now? I could have used years off better when younger. I would happily work now to pay taxes to support younger people's retirement, and medical/parental paid leave, honestly, even if I can't personally retire.
They really need to remove the income cap on the FICA tax here. It's regressive.
Yep, and that's the point. It's the same reason why the rich pay a pittance in taxes and the poor van barely survive and get next to nothing from the government (which wants to take even that away).
It's the same thing we see internationally as well. It's why foreign leaders who try to care about their people are always labeled 'militia leaders' or despots, since it's easier to use thought terminating cliches instead of acknowledging how they're fighting against the colonialist and extractive "agreements" that are foisted upon them.
The point is to make the "lower class" desperate to survive so they don't have the means to better themselves and survive without them.