• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I think it more closely follows social insurance than simply asking for a handout from everyone else’s kids. Afterall, you are paying into it until you are eligible, and when you are eligible, a person just one year younger than you is supporting you. Saying that it’s just “kids” paying into it makes it seem like we all stop paying into Social Security when we turn 25. I

    I think more importantly, it suggests having children is necessary. And it is not. I say that as a loving parent.

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      8 months ago

      It doesn’t require having children, but population growth in general. Some of that is people having children, some is immigration

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        8 months ago

        Endless population growth is both unnecessary and harmful to the environment. That’s one of the reasons we only had one child. One child replaces two of us.

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          That’s not the topic of discussion. Funding of social security is designed around increasing working population, regardless of whether that’s desirable in other ways