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Re:The Old Are Eating the Young by mcv on Thursday June 15, 2017 @07:28AM (#14559358)
> The only difference is that your pension fund will not be "looted", it will have to cut its payouts because its investments don't yield the same returns as they did before. Inflation will do the rest.

Only if the economy goes down and inflation goes up. At the moment, inflation is low and the economy is growing.

My problem is not so much that I'm exposed to the whims of the economy, because that's unavoidable. My problem is when I need to pay extra so others don't have to feel the whims of the economy while I get to feel it double.

Re:The Old Are Eating the Young by brazzy on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:33AM (#14567816)
You missed my point completely. It's not about the "whims of the economy", it's about demographic change. If there are not enough people to pay into a public pension scheme, then there are also not enough people to generate the profits a private pension scheme needs.