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  254. ​ @cariwaldick4898  How much clearer can I make it? It costs trillions of dollars to support these retirement pensions. That money could be going to curing cancer patients, sending kids to college, supporting those who are genuinely incapable of working (which is what disability benefits are for, not retirement pensions), *or letting people currently busting their asses in the work force keep more of what they earn*. Yet it goes to people who simply don't feel like working anymore instead? What kind of moral nihilism is that? Of all the things that could be human rights, why should that be one? Don't give me that crap about "Oh, but they paid into the system, they deserve that money back!!!" First off, with life expectancy increasing, people will be getting MORE than they paid into the system if the retirement age isn't raised, at the next generation's expense. Second, every Social Program creates this kind of injustice, and you leftists never ever are bothered by it in the slightest in any other case. A doctor or lawyer will contribute 10X as much to France's pension funds as anyone else, yet still not be able to take out any more than anyone else. They'll pay hundreds of thousands into the system they never get back but this doesn't bother you. it's just moral common sense retirement should not be the governments business. If someone is literally incapable of working, that's what disability benefits are for. But if you can't eliminate this ponzi scheme entirely we should at least erode it.
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  266.  @stumpy32  "Are you literally arguing for all citizens to work a full-time job until the day they die? Are you a fking idiot? OK let me break down your moronic comment:" I would ask if you're an idiot but we already know the answer is yes. I'm not arguing people should be forced to do anything, but they shouldn't have the government steal their money so it can set their life on a predetermined path. I should be able to decide to save that money for my retirement or not, instead of having it taken from me and being given no choice. If people end up working full time jobs until they day they croak, so what? If we can say working full time is an unthinkable horror at 63, why not at 33? "I really don't understand how you think that the government is funding retirement. All of these sources of retirement funding belong to THE WORKER. The worker paid into it during their career, they are entitled to it." For God's sake, by this logic the government doesn't fund anything. Where do you think the government gets its tax dollars for. "There's nothing to 'justify', it's the workers' own money. It's really very simple." 1) With life expectancy increasing, everyone who retires gets more into the system than they take out of. If you worked from 20 - 65, during that time period, the average person might have lived the retired life for ten years and you paid for that. Then you retire and live 20. Where does the funding for that extra 10 come from? It's not from you. 2) When have you leftists ever cared about workers getting back what they contribute into the system? Isn't the whole point of Social Programs is to ensure this kind of injustice happens? What's the point of giving the government $10 just to get $10 back? The reason things like Social Security exist is precisely so people who didn't contribute to the system can still take money out of it, and those who contributed little can still take out a disproportionate amount. "Everyone on earth ages and loses physical functioning" Then cover this with disability benefits. Also why are the French losing this functionality so much quicker than everyone else? A retirement age of 62 or younger is unheard of almost anywhere in the world. "or you force those people to work full-time jobs to support themselves until the day they die (which would literally be impossible for the many jobs that require heavy physical labor)." And many jobs don't. Why can't someone work a physically intensive job until they're fifty, and then move to a less physically demanding role? "If you support this, you are a very cruel person (and stupid, because that path is NOT SUSTAINABLE)." Lol, because its totally sustainable for French people to spend literally half their lives as dependents, first as minors, then as retirees. Also, again, France's retirement age is unusually low. Why is it sustainable for Canadians to retire at 65 but the French can't retire at 64?
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  565.  @sixstanger00  "This is - in every respect - a right-wing attempt to force the working class into staying in the mines for as long as humanly possible. The rich don't want to get their lily white hands dirty, and they're terrified of a shrinking workforce" Your conception of the rich is as imaginary as fairies living in castles in the sky. Stop making everything about this mythical race called "the rich". As I've said a hundred times here, even liquidating every penny of assets from every billionaire in France would not pay for a single year of pensions for all of France's citizens. And you could only do that once. "This is an ass-backwards way of looking at this policy. You are demanding a percentage of people don't die at a certain age so your system will work. Nature doesn't give a fuck what you want to be the case. People who reach 65 and become deathly ill can't then lay on their death bed and say, 'Well shit...I can't die for at least another 13 years, otherwise the Social Security system won't work right.'" Jesus Herbert Walker Christ, what? I can't even begin to wrap my head around what you're saying here. People who become deathly ill will die and therefore not be burdening the Social Security System. So again...what? That comment doesn't make a lick of sense. "Since they were old enough to work, they paid into the system under the pretense that once they reach 65, they would get that money back. " No. If you were working from 20 - 65 and retire this year, during the period where you were paying into the system, the average person might have lived 10 years before retiring. Due to advances in technology, you will likely live 20. So you paid for 10 years, got 20. Where does the expenses for the additional 10 come from. "Now you're sitting there advocating for literal THEFT. You are saying that the 5 years worth of retirement between 65-70? They just lost that money. The average annual SS benefit is around $29,800." Oh right, because you leftists totally wouldn't know anything about that. Except that that sort of theft is the entire point of every social program . Why do you support things like universal medicaid, welfare, if not because it allows people who've contributed little or nothing into the system to still take just as much out of it as the doctors, lawyers etc. who paid for 90% of these programs but will probably never use it? Why would ANY social program exist on the premise "give the government $10, get $10 back". That makes no sense. NOW you suddenly care about the injustice about people not getting back what they paid into the system? When that's been the very essence of leftwing economics from day one?
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