ronl2k
@ronl2k@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is this real life? 8 hours ago:
If he was cremated, he’s black now.
You’ve obviously never seen cremated remains.
- Comment on Is this real life? 8 hours ago:
I’ve always assumed that posts that began with “as a black man” were posted by a non-black person. Trying too hard, and invading their own Internet privacy at the same time.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 day ago:
but that necessarily means that other people are now paying for their Social Security.
Who is “their?” Currently Social Security is designed for workers to pay for their own retirement.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 days ago:
Social Security was designed to have winners and losers in the contributions game. My mom died at 64, and my dad died at 59. They both contributed to Social Security during their entire working lives without collecting a cent from it. That’s the way it goes.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 days ago:
retirees started receiving benefits even if they never paid into the system, which was paid for by the current workers who were paying into the system.
The vast majority of current boomers have fully paid for their own Social Security pension.
Social Security is also not a pension.
That’s a distinction without a difference.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 days ago:
boomers between years 1946 and 1964, which have actually paid more than they’ll get in benefits.
So boomers 79 and younger are fully paying their own way. According to Google, the average US longevity is 78.4 years. I don’t see an unfairness problem. Google also states that only about 4-5% of the U.S. population is 80 and older. You also assume those over 80 have paid nothing toward their pension.
I don’t think we should universally hate boomers just because the economic situation they were in happened to favor them in some ways
Again, most boomers pay their own way. And many seniors are living below the poverty line. And speaking of being favored, male boomers were required to risk their lives for their country. Current US males can take that risk optionally. Do you have any idea of how many young men had their lives cut short during WW2 and Vietnam?
there are just fewer workers paying in to the system than there are people taking money out, and that number only grows as people get older
Obviously false. Most seniors have already fully paid for their pension. If everybody is paying their own way, what difference does it make whether there are fewer workers? You falsely assume that current workers are paying for current seniors.
it’s not looking like we’ll be any better as we grow older
Whatever happens to you, it won’t be because of the boomers who are paying their own way.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 days ago:
They could not afford to survive off only what they put in.
That’s why many senior citizens live below the poverty line.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 days ago:
The money the Boomers paid into the system went to paying benefits for the previous generations.
False. The pension is fully vested by the workers receiving the pension, based on the taxes that they contributed. In fact, many elderly would be better off if the amount they contributed were invested in a hedge fund instead of Social Security.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 days ago:
No need for the unnecessary hostility. It’s obvious that plenty of young people are voting for your rich politicians too. US politicians can’t win with only 28% of the vote. And US elderly make up a substantial portion of those below the poverty line, and they don’t all vote alike anyway.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 days ago:
we’re still paying money into social security that we will never receive
You don’t know that you won’t receive Social Security. That’s just pointless scaremongering. In any case, vote for legislators who will manage Social Security better instead of blaming everything on boomers.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 3 days ago:
I’m convinced that Trump is a big-time troll.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 days ago:
Current boomers have paid for 100% of their Social Security pension from payroll deductions from their working years. Social Security pensions are not dependent on young taxpayers.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 days ago:
Boomers are only 28% of the US voting population. Try again.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 days ago:
boomers are a chunk of the reason that the rich and powerful continue to be able to grasp and maintain power.
Boomers are only 28% of the US voters. Explain why their chunk is more responsible and the younger 72%.
- Comment on Amazing 2 weeks ago:
I’m neutral on the Metric System.
The US uses metric for military specs, automotive repair parts, US science specs, medicine/pharmacy, jewelry and most grocery products. The US dollar is also metric.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 2 weeks ago:
Your anonymous country works exactly the same way. That’s why you didn’t mention it.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 2 weeks ago:
If we don’t have a government, Russia or China will give us one.
- Comment on Anon finds a bot 2 weeks ago:
Public stalking-enabling was always the worst aspect of reddit.
Are mods of one subreddit still able to stalk your history of another subreddit in order to permaban you for joining a subreddit that they don’t like? It seems counterproductive for advertisers but that’s exactly what the r_bitcoin subreddit does. It’s a well-known echo chamber and those mods want to keep it that way.
- Comment on Anon finds a bot 2 weeks ago:
I’m not seeing any proof the Twitter is doing well as a company.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 2 weeks ago:
Why do all those MAGAs in the pic look like Andrew Tate?
- Comment on SipsTea 2 weeks ago:
Oh sweet summer child, stay innocent
Too late for that. He already sees his hookup 304s as wife material.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 2 weeks ago:
I’d like to see your data.
Just try finding a men’s opinion group that successfully bans women.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 2 weeks ago:
I support men making their own support groups.
While women are allowed to keep men out of their groups, it doesn’t work the other way around. Even gay men’s groups have trouble keeping invasive women from changing the nature of their groups.
- Comment on Cope 4 weeks ago:
A beard with no moustache looks weird.
Agreed. It looks like the man’s face has been shortened.
- Comment on Interesting observation 5 weeks ago:
If I came on you and said I could “straighten” you out with my penis, that’s a threat (at least it is in my book).
How odd that one paragraph later you’re criticizing others for not being able to recognize a joke.
- Comment on I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌 1 month ago:
Spiders eat bedbugs, so that’s nice.
Cockroaches eat bedbugs too. But I don’t think spiders or roaches can eat them fast enough to outdo their reproductive rate.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 1 month ago:
Anyone starving was a matter of policy.
Couldn’t some of those over-taxed Irish have chosen to fish or hunt instead of depending on one crop?
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 2 months ago:
There’s a reason why fringe parties tend to remain on the fringe.
- Comment on Impossible 2 months ago:
Asians were wearing masks in public for the common cold long before today’s other outbreaks.
- Comment on Impossible 2 months ago:
One thing that getting old has taught me is that young people tend to think that life before them was prehistoric. Technology tends to advance gradually. The only consumer invention that ever shocked me was the introduction of the microwave oven in the early 1970’s. Didn’t see that one coming.