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r/SipsTea • u/Anulisdotexe • 10h ago
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This is the first generation of average retired having better living conditions than average working people.
4 u/Wayoutofthewayof 9h ago The ironic thing is that the youths started rioting when they tried to raise the retirement age. 6 u/Suitable-Block-2854 9h ago They are thinking long term. The only way they can endure their current suffering is the hope they can retire some day. Now they are told their sentence has been extended, and opens up the precedent it will be extended again before they reach it. 1 u/Wayoutofthewayof 8h ago So why aren't they happy to have a majority of their paycheks used to fund these programs if they want them? They have quite literally the most expensive retirement welfare system in history of human civilization right now already.
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The ironic thing is that the youths started rioting when they tried to raise the retirement age.
6 u/Suitable-Block-2854 9h ago They are thinking long term. The only way they can endure their current suffering is the hope they can retire some day. Now they are told their sentence has been extended, and opens up the precedent it will be extended again before they reach it. 1 u/Wayoutofthewayof 8h ago So why aren't they happy to have a majority of their paycheks used to fund these programs if they want them? They have quite literally the most expensive retirement welfare system in history of human civilization right now already.
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They are thinking long term. The only way they can endure their current suffering is the hope they can retire some day. Now they are told their sentence has been extended, and opens up the precedent it will be extended again before they reach it.
1 u/Wayoutofthewayof 8h ago So why aren't they happy to have a majority of their paycheks used to fund these programs if they want them? They have quite literally the most expensive retirement welfare system in history of human civilization right now already.
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So why aren't they happy to have a majority of their paycheks used to fund these programs if they want them?
They have quite literally the most expensive retirement welfare system in history of human civilization right now already.
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u/That_Seasonal_Fringe 9h ago
This is the first generation of average retired having better living conditions than average working people.