Thread 81720372

>my healthcare got slashed so boomers could get a tax cut on their gibs which I'll never be able to get when I'm their age since the coffers will have dried up
day of the pillow when?

>>81720372 (OP)
Boomers whining about neetbux is the biggest joke. These fucks are receiving a nation-crippling state pension which no one else will ever get, on top of their savings from their overpaid careers they enjoyed during economic boom, while living (or renting out) the properties they inflated to astronomical prices so that anyone else has to become a lifelong debt slave in order to afford one.

Boomers are complete scum.

>>81720482
I'm British btw I'm not sure how true this is of other countries but I imagine it's a similar situation.

>>81720491

It's not even a solely Western problem anymore. Even Korea and Japan have similar issues because they also have a demographic problem.

>>81720593
isn't the concept of pensions like this a ponzi scheme by defintion

>>81720593
japan has it worst of anybody, a big part of their economic decline is because not just the government but corporate employers are gerontocratic and unable to adapt

>>81720612

Not if you set it up correctly and have a lot of ramp up time for the pension funds to accrue funds. But most countries just gave out pensions to old people without first setting up funds and letting them save for decades, so now they resemble ponzis schemes in a certain fashion.

>>81720624
the norm should be for people from rich countries to retire in the third world; this would cost a lot less money and solve all kinds of problems. we need to start working towards this as a society.

State pension should be means-tested. That's the simplest solution. A millionaire or someone who owns more than one property does not need to be propped up by the state in their old age. Also anyone receiving a substantial corporate pension should not be entitled to the state pension on top.

Call it socialism if you want, but it can be argued that the state pension itself is a socialist policy.

>>81720482
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>>81720696
it's not enough on its own, US debt crisis is 5-10 years away and they're gonna have to massively raise taxes and boy is it gonna be chaos. a lot of the fault lines in american society will be exposed at that point.