>>513893355 (OP)I remember 15 years ago when my family was talking about social security, which was undergoing some structural changes.
The boomers were bitching that they had to work till 67 years old instead of the promised fabled 65 because there were too many old people, and the bitching was somewhat justified in their mind.
After all, they were told from early childhood onwards that they worked and paid so their grandparents could get a retirement benefit, a social pension about 70% of minimum wage essentially for free.
What they failed to realise is that this was possible because it takes 4 adult taxpayers to fund 1 elderly retirement benefit.
My parents are the only people in their family who got kids. Me and my little brother were expected to work for the retirement of 10 people.
Most families only have 1 or 2 kids per household anyway.
No shit the working age has to go up.
And that's besides the narrative that they were given and handed down to me: we're retiring on the money you haven't created yet. "Borrowing from the future generations" is the way they put it in school.
The problem with old people isn't that they exist.
It's that they get benefits.
Cut the benefits. The bennies are the problem in that situation.
It's just like with obesity, you don't give a flaming flying fuck whether someone's 200 or 400lbs, what you care about is that their obesity makes your healthcare costs go up.
The problem there isn't that they're fat, the problem is that your insurer is a useless Jew who makes you pay for someone else's problem. To fix it, don't have insurance. But then there's the cost of private healthcare to consider, which saving on insurance fees probably affords you quite easily.