I’ve been shitting on Social Security for years now, and every single time, I’m told ad fucking nauseam:
“It’s MY money! I paid into it!”
Really? Then why would we need to raise taxes on everyone else just to give you “your” money?
Because it’s NOT your money. Your money was spent almost as soon as it came in. Today’s workers are paying for yesterday’s retirees.
It’s a massive, government run Ponzi scheme. And now, one of the largest generations in American history is collecting benefits.
In a traditional Ponzi scheme, this is where everything implodes: when there aren’t enough new investors coming in to pay off the old ones.
But there’s one crucial difference.
This one is backed by the federal government.
And when there aren’t enough new people paying into the system, the government has something Bernie Madoff never had:
The power to force the next generation to pay more, at gunpoint.
Exactly like I’ve been saying for years.
When I’m old, I hope that I did a good enough job not wasting money on frivolous shit so my kids don’t have to be robbed at gunpoint (extorted) by the government to pay for my retirement.
Boomers are so brain rotted that they don’t realize social security stole from them too. If they invested in the market at an average 10% return over their 44 years or however long they worked, social security wouldn’t be necessary. They are the anti socialists who love socialism
A surprising new study finds that people who sleep near their dogs don’t experience disrupted sleep. If anything, the University of Toronto researchers discovered, we humans are the ones disturbing our dogs’ sleep. https://t.co/fCVVc4vwE8
I understand that the social security conversation is political poison. But I’m not running for office so I don’t care about that. Taking huge chunks out of the paychecks of young working Americans in order to pay for the retirements of older Americans who have a net worth several times higher, all to prop up a system that everyone knows likely won’t be there when those younger people are retirement age themselves, is morally abhorrent and economically insane. Everyone knows it, too, but we’re held hostage by elderly politicians who refuse to surrender power, and older voters who, as a group (with exceptions, obviously), simply don’t care all that much about the financial and cultural future their grandchildren will inherit.
The right to bear arms shall not be infringed and every American should be allowed to own any military weapon. It was written when farmers and soldiers carried the same weapons. Then it was neutered to keep us all obedient to the tyrannical government.
Your young franchise QB collapses in pain on the field, and the team just walks by him? The only teammate showing any kind of concern is Marcus Mariota, the backup QB?
Offensive linemen walking around him to get off the field, some not even glancing back.
No teammates around the cart as he's being taken off the field.
What is happening here? Do they hate this guy?
BREAKING: Ukrainian drones have just struck Russia's Kapotnya oil refinery in Moscow, the city's only refinery with a capacity of around 280,000 barrels per day, in a raid on the capital this morning.
This comes only six days after Trump claimed that Ukraine had agreed to stop hitting Russian energy targets, that Russia had agreed likewise, and that the world's diesel price rise "is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran."
She told the world she’s a foreign agent in US Congress and nothing is going to be done about this. Ilhan Omar said she represents Somalia. Ted Cruz said he’s going to the Senate to defend Israel. They’re not selling you out, you’ve already been sold.
215 years ago, Mexicans fought an empire that demanded our land and our labor. And we won.
I'll carry that fight with me to Congress as New York's first Mexican American representative.
And I'm strengthened not just by Mexico's history but its present. Last month I met comrades in Morena who are standing up to the empires and corporations that have always taken from us – and building a government for the working class.
¡Viva la Independencia, Viva México!
🚨 NEWS 🚨
I’ve joined @chainlink!
I’ll be helping tell the story of how crypto is rebuilding the global financial infrastructure, from tokenized assets and stablecoins to 24/7 markets and the technology connecting onchain finance to the world’s financial institutions.
I’m incredibly grateful to the people who have shaped my career, trusted me with big stories, challenged me, and opened doors for me along the way.
Couldn’t be more excited about what’s ahead.
The future is onchain - needless to say, I am extremely bullish .