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user-inactivated  ·  3185 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The retirement revolution that failed: Why the 401 (k) isn't working

I think I might have been too terse. You've got it pretty good, but I bet you wouldn't be mixing reality tv if you didn't have obligations that require money. I've got it pretty good too, but I wouldn't piss on people who call other people "resources" if they were on fire if I didn't have a father nearing retirement with ridiculous medical bills and no savings because I used to have a mother with ridiculous medical bills. Like everyone says whenever anyone speculates about how things might be done better, "but who will be the garbage man?" "Keeping shit working" means when you have the Great Depression you get the New Deal, but it also means you roll it back when people get too comfortable, on pain of there be no one obliged to drive the garbage trucks.





kleinbl00  ·  3184 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No argument from me. I suspect my fundamental level of cynicism is higher.