Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA

On 5/11/2024 12:00 PM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 10 May 2024 21:02:21 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:
 

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 5/10/2024 1:46 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

For those who are interested in the future long term financial
apocalypse of the USA

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More dystopian fiction.   Talk about depressing.

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Yup, just like reality.
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USA Social Security sent me a letter the other day and said that if I
wait until I am 67 to start taking SS, they will give me $4,000/month.
That is an amazing number.  I am wondering that they are going to send a
hit man instead, much cheaper.

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Talk to congress,  they've had plenty of warnings and decades to
alleviate the problem, but the fucking unelected grover norquist
has screwed us all.
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Corporations, who benefit from stable employees, should be
contributing to SS.    They should (as per Warren Buffet)
be paying their fair share, rather than leaching off the
American public.

 As others have pointed, they are. And, if this one or that one isn't,
it's going find itself in deep kimshee.
 OTOH, requiring them to determine what they would be paying their
robotic workers if they were replaced by humans and paying payroll
taxes on /that/ might be one way of funding Social Security and
Medicare [1]. And ... adjust ... the cost/benefit analysis of
replacing humans with robots a bit.
 [1] If they are already doing this, feel free to tell me. If this is
not practical politically, I agree. Have a nice day.

What's a 'robot worker'? Replacement usually isn't going to be firing
a human, and putting a humanoid robot in his/her place. How many humans
did a farm tractor replace? An electronic database vs clerks and file
cards?
There's not a one-for-one equivalent.
pt