Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agoItalian man dresses as dead mother in Mrs Doubtfire ruse to claim her pensionwww.smh.com.auexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1258arrow-down15
arrow-up1253arrow-down1external-linkItalian man dresses as dead mother in Mrs Doubtfire ruse to claim her pensionwww.smh.com.auLee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·2 hours agoYeah 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.
minus-squaretomiant@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 hours agoYou 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.
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·57 minutes agoYeah, I don’t mind it too much. Especially because tax evasion is a far bigger harm to social welfare systems. As long as he actually needed that money and wasn’t some already well-off fucker that wanted to hoard even more money that is.
minus-squaretomiant@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-29 minutes agoIt’s all part of the same fucking scam. “It’s not only that they robbed the bank, they also rifle butted the clerks in the face.”
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.
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.
Yeah, I don’t mind it too much. Especially because tax evasion is a far bigger harm to social welfare systems.
As long as he actually needed that money and wasn’t some already well-off fucker that wanted to hoard even more money that is.
It’s all part of the same fucking scam. “It’s not only that they robbed the bank, they also rifle butted the clerks in the face.”