• anonono@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So that they don’t have to work until 67.

    I mean if it were for the government they would put old people in an island and nuke it from time to time.

    Enjoying the fruits of your labor? How dare you.

    It’s also true that population is living longer and younger generations are not having kids. I mean there’s a little trick most don’t know is that those contributions in the form of taxes that you made all your life towards retirement, most of it gets spent immediately by the government. So if younger generations don’t have kids to keep the ponzi running the whole thing falls apart, and one of the symptoms is this, the need to raise retirement age.