• @radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com
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    27 days ago

    Ideally social security, Medicaid and Medicare should’ve been implemented as individual accounts. You get what you pay for with an extra amount being collected for disability insurance. Politically impractical but mathematically solves the problem of fluctuating population numbers.

    • @WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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      27 days ago

      That wouldn’t help. Retirement accounts are just as affected by population pyramids as state social welfare systems. They’re just obfuscated.