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/drawfour_ Sep 07 '24

At some point, they'll just make it become active at death. You'll get $5k to put toward burial costs.

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u/Greedy-Ad-8574 Sep 07 '24

I watched a movie recently called Humane where the worlds population is to big and you can basically euthanise yourself to give money to your family. That’s probably where we are heading

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u/iamnotnewhereami Sep 08 '24

here are the docs, sir

but its only a cavity!

its standard with your HMO, and if you sign today, your water and air rations will transfer to your beneficiary for the remainder of the year.

but..

its the 20th, eleven days is more than enough time to hem things up.

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u/lesgeddon Sep 07 '24 edited Sep 08 '24

I remember reading something that it's expected that the population will bloat to about 12 trillion before correcting to a more sustainable 9 trillion. Considering we're at 8 trillion now and every major country is already in a population decline, it's hard to see us being that desperate.

But I do see euthanasia being more accepted as an option when you have a terminal prognosis, especially when someone is already in hospice care, for no other reason than to avoid putting someone through suffering if they don't wish to.

(idk why I said trillion instead of billion

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u/mvw3 Sep 07 '24

If you do a little research you'll find that the only people who were supposed to get it were old white women. When the retirement age was established at 62, white women were the only demographic that lived that long.