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World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2025
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The state is capturing surplus value of my labour to provide universal health care for people who own housing and hold most the wealth outside the 1%.
These same people block any political reform that would benefit the working class. Same people are refusing SS reform and are depleting the SS trust fund.
Learn basic economics and how these regimes actually work.
PS. FICA is 7.5 twice. So 50k income is being taxed 3750 goes directly from employet and 3750 from the paycheck to 7.5k in total.
Learn the math while you are at it.
Shit.. I thought I did. I better demand a refund from NYU. I'll also let my employer know twenty years in finance is worthless and I should be fired.
SS doesn't need to have a fund. It doesn't need to be solvent. Someone decided to structure it that way for political reasons. Think outside the box a bit and you'll realize that the entire problem is manufactured.
The model doesn't work when population is not growing Mr Finance. We are under going a demographic shift that can't support the benefits paid put at current rate. Once trust fund is depleted either FICA goes up or benefits go down.
If we know this fact now, why is the fund being ran down at this rate?
Why should the boomers get paid out more than they out in while younger people will get paid less than what they put in?
You're still laboring under the assumption that social security money is somehow different than the rest of the money. It's all just money. At the end of the day. We can always print more and give it to people.
Now that's a bad idea because printing money is a flat tax, so all we really need to do is tax the rich and give that to people and not need social security.
You fundamentally don't understand how the social security regime is structured if you think "government can print money to fund it"
Sure after congress overhauls the entire regime anything is possible but under the current law, the boomers are depleting the nest egg and once that is done reductions in benefits will be automatic. Current?model relies on population pyramid that simply doesn't exist in the US. And it can't since we are below replacement level and migrants are not enough to expand the base.
Which is more likely to happen congress reform it or boomer looting it and leaving everyone bag holding?
Can't tell if you being dense on purposes or not but this is not rocket science, this is all public information.
Also, boomer spend last 17 years printing, look at the national debt... We are hitting limits on the carrying costs for it.
You complained about the people ON social security. But they have nothing to do with what you said. Your problem is the people who RUN social security.
Ohh so boomers didn't provide political cover for the regime whores for the last 40 years?
They don't bebenfit from these policies?
WTF kinda naive take is this lol
Boomer is the base of the two party regime jfc
You're a big fan of putting words in my mouth. If you keep this up I'm going to make you buy me dinner first. You dirty whore (I'm also assuming you have a negging kink because you keep insulting me).
The two-party system has nothing to do with boomers. It is a natural consequence of first past the post electoral systems. Those systems were put in place when the country was founded. If you have a problem with that, take it up with some dead folks from the 1700s. Or take it up with literally every generation since then, including us, for not changing it.
And it still seems that your problem is with the social security system itself. You just want to blame a specific group of people because it makes you feel good.
But if anything, the blame could be put on Reagan since he's the one who started borrowing against SS, breaking the entire model and setting it up as fake political drama.
I am blaming people who benefit from the set up and who refuse any changes to the set up.
I am following the money as one should in any political analysis.
look at this fucker trying to borrow socialist terminology and ideas to advocate against welfare, the surplus value of your labor goes to your capitalist boss you dumb fuck
Sure, that's called profit.
This conversation is about the boomers as a class and about their bootlicking behaviour at expense of working people.
If you don't see it... You ain't looking.
But I am happy you enjoy paying for universal health care and UBI... Most young people have shittier health care while living in poverty. This system is doesn't work anymore and it they are running into the ground before your eyes. You accept it though 🤡
Ignorant crab in a bucket. What an angry little useful idiot.
Yes it's the democratic institutions that are the problem, don't look at the small group of economic lords that steal everything from the working class and avoid contributing back.
That's just a healthy profit, it's the boomers! It's the immigrants! Look over there.
Ignorant little fucking crab
My work on fedi speaks for itself.
And you provided zero counter argument to my thesis.
Why should the worker support a system that will be depleted within 10 years because boomers refuse the optimize it for the demographic shift?
Why should they be paid out in full? While rest of us get reduce benefits?
I am all about solidarity but this is not Solidarity, this old people fucking over young people after they sold out the country to their dear owners that they worship on tv.