Comment by trgn
4 months ago
I meant that pension payouts are a legal claim, and somewhar untethered from what the actual amounts an individual puts into it. You're guaranteed a benefit, until death. in practice thwt benefit is met by new younger contributors, higher taxes,...
You sense a pension is like insurance (a benefit, paid out because of legal contract) , and this burden by mathematical nexessity is carried unequally. Other people feel like it should be more like a return on prior investment, a burden carried individually.
I think both are complementary fwiw because both by themselves have drawbacks, different moral hazards
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