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Re:Analyzing the monetary component of employee benefits at ... by xienze on Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:45AM (#13995261)
> I think personally it is because of our atttitude towards retirement planning that majority of the companies today offer either no pension or almost-entirely employee-funded direct contribution based pension system.

I think it's a _little_ bit of that and a whole lot of "the government will take care of me." I mean it's a legitimate strategy to a lot of young voters. Too much student loan debt? Vote for Bernie, he'll nullify it. Broke at retirement age? Vote for Bernie 2.0, he's promising a healthy "basic income" for seniors, indexed to inflation.

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Re:Analyzing the monetary component of employee benefits at ... by bryanlarsen on Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:57AM (#13995361)
Or they believe the Republic propaganda that the Social Services are broke and unsustainable, that anything they save is going to be stolen from them through taxes anyways, so there's no use saving.

As is usual, the answer is somewhere in the middle, which is being lost in this increasingly polarized world.

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