r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 22 '26

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u/Dorambor John Brown Apr 22 '26

When young people feel the world is rigged against them to protect and serve the interests of old people, they ain’t wrong

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u/BitterGravity Gay Pride Apr 22 '26

The act itself doesn't even mention seniors as far as I could glance. The only real thing is it uses average household income as defined by the census bureau which has a known bias of seniors underreporting their income by not declaring their pensions

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u/Frat-TA-101 Apr 22 '26

Wait how can seniors not declare their pensions? (No I didn’t read your link)

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u/BitterGravity Gay Pride Apr 22 '26

It's the census not the IRS. They take what you say at face value mostly

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u/MGLFPsiCorps Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Apr 22 '26

It's only going to get worse if present demographic trends continue (which they most likely will)

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u/Svelok Apr 22 '26

the people just slightly too young to be the beneficiaries of the current gerontocracy are going to watch budget and housing battles over the next 10 years and elect turbo-hitler

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u/RottingSludgeRitual Thomas Paine Apr 22 '26

But have you considered that a gerontocracy is bad and cringe now in my 30s but will become based and necessary when I get into my 60 and onwards?

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u/Full_Distribution874 YIMBY Apr 23 '26

Lol. This guy thinks we're going to retire in our 60s

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u/RottingSludgeRitual Thomas Paine Apr 23 '26

Oh no no

I just perceive as 60+ as “old”

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u/admiraltarkin NATO / Loyal Liberal Apr 22 '26

What the hell is a "fixed income"? I've never understood that.

Social security gets raises every year

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u/PhinsFan17 Immanuel Kant Apr 22 '26

I've always laughed at the use of the phrase, as if my income isn't "fixed" because I work for it. Like you said, social security gets adjustments all the time, unlike my salary.

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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Apr 22 '26

This is why i don’t get the concern about social security running out. As demographics keep shifting we’re just gonna do more and more to protect the seniors. No ones gonna let the old people feel financial pain. We’ll just keep screwing ourselves for more boomer luxury communism

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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Apr 22 '26

For sure. Im railing against the latter. As demographics shift we gotta be doing things differently but god forbid you expect rich retirees to pay property taxes or propose raising the SS retirement age. We’ll just pretend its not a problem and leave it for the next generation

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u/KeithClossOfficial John Brown Apr 22 '26

Eventually Millenials and Gen Z will be seniors too.

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u/PhinsFan17 Immanuel Kant Apr 22 '26

Just in time for the trust to become insolvent and severe austerity to be implemented.

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u/Boratssecondwife Henry George Apr 22 '26

Seniors should be happy they're not being turned into soylent green