Re:Does Market Timing Work?
by AnthonyMouse on Sunday October 08, 2023 @07:41PM
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> How is it like insurance?
It pays until you die instead of paying until you run out of savings. The risk it's insuring against is that you live longer than the average person and outlive your savings.
> Also, I think because people feel an existential threat - some people rely on that money to survive.
Nah, the more sensible of the reform proposals are the ones that convert it into a fixed payment for everyone. Those proposals are still every hard to pass because some people would get more than they do now and some would get less, and the people who would get less are the more affluent people with no existential risk, but they would still fight it.
> And because, after seeing that deduction every two weeks for their entire lives, they want their payout.
The program started by making payouts to people who never paid in. Their money is already gone, given to their own parents.
It pays until you die instead of paying until you run out of savings. The risk it's insuring against is that you live longer than the average person and outlive your savings.
> Also, I think because people feel an existential threat - some people rely on that money to survive.
Nah, the more sensible of the reform proposals are the ones that convert it into a fixed payment for everyone. Those proposals are still every hard to pass because some people would get more than they do now and some would get less, and the people who would get less are the more affluent people with no existential risk, but they would still fight it.
> And because, after seeing that deduction every two weeks for their entire lives, they want their payout.
The program started by making payouts to people who never paid in. Their money is already gone, given to their own parents.