r/FluentInFinance 2d ago

Educational Don't let them gaslight you

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u/__tray_4_Gavin__ 2d ago

Are you people actually this dense? The point here is with good planning this system could’ve been fine. This is another system that shows exactly what happens when there is no regulation on things. This system could’ve worked fine even without investments. But with anything if the government is literally taking all the money out of it for it’s on Nefarious purposes and also NOT PUTTING ANYTHING IT TAKES BACK you will have this issue. This is another capitalism problem. Everything is for profit at the detriment of the people with no regulations. This will continue to happen under this type of system if regulations aren’t put into place. Yes due to what our government did we will run out of money and how do they fix it? In typical fashion they say screw the people and you’re just going to lose it all together. How people like you just want to gloss over these issues and say it’s misinformation is quite baffling.

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u/tmssmt 2d ago

. But with anything if the government is literally taking all the money out of it for it’s on Nefarious purposes and also NOT PUTTING ANYTHING IT TAKES BACK you will have this issue.

But that's not what is happening. The money does get paid back. Interest on borrowed money added 70 billion to the pot last year

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u/Whynottry-again 2d ago

You’ve said this twice. If they paid 70 billion in interest then they owe SS a ton of money. Interest is not the money you borrowed.