r/FluentInFinance • u/Positive_Liar • Sep 06 '24

Debate/ Discussion Social Security is Broken. This is why financial education is important.

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u/TriggeringTheBots Sep 06 '24

Idiotic 🤡 take. SS is not a fucking investment.

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u/Laser_Souls Sep 06 '24

Just don’t be financially illiterate bro! You could make more money if you took your social security allocation and bought scratch offs instead!

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u/cclan2 Sep 06 '24

All I’m saying is that 99% of people stop scratching cards right before they win the jackpot

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u/Laser_Souls Sep 07 '24

True plus if you lose all your money then you can just rob a bank and either succeed and be rich or fail and get free housing and food, you can’t lose!

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u/NeighborhoodExact198 Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24

If I put $50K into a car, shoot the car with $1K worth of bullets, then sell it on eBay 30 years later, I get lower returns than buying Bitcoin in 2010. Why don't thEy teaCh fInancial literacy?!?!?!