Message from @tritrium
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Singapore is a great place to live tbh, just that your voting doesn't really matter
basically it talks about the rather unique circumstances that allow sweden to be sweden in terms of the way it runs
they benefit from being a relatively low population country that has a very deep interpersonal trust
on economic issues they are further right than the american right
in some ways at least
theres a film coming out called "Sweden: Lessons for America?"
I may need to watch this
based on the description there's a few things that simply wont work here
some of these things require trust of government which americans simply don't have
as much as the left pretends they do
Sweden is becoming more America like right now, so they won't work over there either for much longer
thats the problem in most of western EU countries
not the solution
people putting way to much trust in government
@AdorableStormtrooper yes but we have a couple issues that we may be able to glean some ideas from
they reformed their original pension system
they partially privatized it
now ultimately I want that entire system here gone
but as a kind of intermediate step to remove it, that isn't a terrible idea
i agree with that
public pensions are cancer
in addition, they made them variable
it's a ponzi scheme
so the amount paid depends on the state of the economy
they gonna have to do that over here as well i think
the person interviewed say "while it may not be as generous now as it was, at least we know it will survive."
economically, they are rated as a more free and open economy than america
it can be done over a long time so current pension receivers and people who are just about to become eligible aren't affected, people who haven't paid into the system, their shit should be privatised
i mean just imagine being 50+ and suddenly getting told that this pension you worked all your life for, paying huge amounts of taxes for.
Well you gonna get less now AND you gonna have to work longer as well!
Were very sorry 😃
that is what happened here btw
its not a hypothetical
ive accepted that im going to pay into the system and not expect to get anything
though tbh whatever SS can do for me wont really matter since my current retirement plan that is private will pay me several times it
ah so ur one of the smart guys 😛
they privatize over a long time i think don't they? i think they proposed that in NZ, and the proposal was that people who are aged over 40 will not be affected
this is why, the sooner you do it, the lower the blow
@tritrium not really. I mean social security isn't exactly a high pay system as it is
I worked with a guy when I was 22 who was near retirement and he said, "Social Security isn't going to pay me enough to continue living here. So I'm going to supplement it with a part time job"
well thats true pensions arent very high here either
at that point i realized that "if this guy is boned, I'm definitely going to be boned"