• tomiant@piefed.social
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    2 hours ago

    Absolutely god damned right too. That’s HER money. She earned it. If it’s not paid out to her because she died before she got it back, her son should get it.

    Just imagine you’re paying a mandatory fee each month (a big chunk of your money) into a fund that is supposed to provide for you when you get old, and then you die before you get old enough, then FUCK YOU give the money back. It’s not yours to keep. She earned it.

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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      45 minutes ago

      Yeah no, that’s not how a pension system can be sustainable.

      Some people must get less than they paid so that others don’t have to starve to death because they live to the age of 100.

      And that’s honestly OK. The same way someone who never gets sick in their life has to pay for all the chronically ill.

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        30 minutes ago

        You know I kind of realized this while I was typing out my outrage. So, fair. But still, in the light of what they do with our pension funds, I am hard pressed to blame someone wanting to have some of their parents pensions when said parents die.