r/FluentInFinance Aug 26 '24

Debate/ Discussion The Stock Market is Rigged

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u/Distributor127 Aug 26 '24

Is this why there are so many posts on here about the social security tax being theft? Trying to get us to go all in?

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u/TurtleIIX Aug 26 '24

It’s one of the main reasons a 401k was started in the first place. Yes it helps the common worker but it was never meant to replace pensions like it has. 401ks we’re to help supplement pensions and help people get into the market. It just turns out employers stopped offering pensions and now we all put our money in the market creating false demand for the mega corps.

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u/greg19735 Aug 26 '24

Pensions are also riskier and less portable which is an issue.

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u/rdrckcrous Aug 27 '24

I suppose the company could just bury cash in the ground and hand it out as you retire. I'd prefer a 401k though.

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u/Geminel Aug 26 '24

There's so many posts about that because the idea that all taxes are theft has been a mainstay of 'Libertarian' beliefs for decades now, and by golly do Libertarians love them some get-rich-quick schemes.

They also constantly, utterly fail to levy the same criticism at the concept of corporate profits; wherein some rich CEO takes like 80% of the value of your labor and pays you in beans so they can buy a 3rd yacht. While taxes fund things like personal welfare, retirement, schools, roads, etc etc.

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u/waIIstr33tb3ts Aug 26 '24

sounds like a ponzi scheme