• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I think a better solution would be to fund pensions out of a sovereign wealth fund that’s not necessarily tied to youth productivity.

    Stops youngins from feeling like they’re living in a geroncleptocracy, while also not tossing grandma out to live in the underpass

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      1 year ago

      What if we created one pension fund each year? Every person born that year contributes into that fund during their working years and withdraw from it in retirement. It seems like a solution that is fair to everybody, avoiding inter-generational wealth transfers.

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          1 year ago

          Why would you assume that the fund would be kept in cash? That’s not how pension funds work.

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            1 year ago

            Because otherwise you run into the problem of having to get additional revenue from somewhere else.

            The current problem is that there aren’t enough young people working well paying enough jobs to fund pensions, because if they aren’t funding them it’s just an account you throw money into and then draw out of later.

            You can either provide an alternative source of additional funds or tell grandma it’s not your fault she put her money into a box instead of an investment vehicle to fund her retirement.

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              1 year ago

              I have described a system that would have prevented the problem in the first place while still providing the actuarial benefits of pooling resources.

              I am not offering a solution for how to transition from the current system where the young pay for the old.

              What I don’t like is the hyper-neoliberal approach where each person lives in an island and resources aren’t pooled at all, because it benefits the rich at the cost of the poor.