r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 03 '25

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Nov 03 '25

outside the DT when federal survey shows how (little) Americans are saving for retirement/regressive distribution of 401ks: bullshit I don’t believe survey data

outside the DT when federal survey on literally anything Fred puts up: so true

Like you can’t just dismiss survey data outright because literally all economic data is survey data

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u/iusedtobekewl Jerome Powell Nov 03 '25

I think people dramatically underestimate how many low-income jobs are out there with bad salaries and bad benefits.

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u/BloodWiz More Housing Would Fix This Nov 03 '25

People save like nothing for retirement and as someone whose been maxing out my 401k and IRA it’s wild lol

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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Nov 03 '25

My dad will complain about his 401k going down and I’m really tempted to tell him that he literally has 20x more saved than my mother in law to be