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@elston_ Thank you for sharing. The pacifist, non-fighting christian, is for me the only true christian.

I am not chrisitan myself, but I find a lot of good things in it. If I were a christian, I would probably be a quaker or an old school christian unitarian universalist.

@ChrisMayLA6 all their lives, only to die on the day of retirement, is an enormously profitable business for hte government.

@ChrisMayLA6 This is a good point, and partly what I meant. I also thought of working part time, and not going from 100% to 0% at work, but easing into retirement, based on enregy levels and interest, over several years, or decades even.

But this is not my view of what retirement is like for some (many?). Many people identify with their jobs, and when going from 100% to 0% they lose their identity. Some even die. It could be argued that this is by design, because people working and being taxed

@ChrisMayLA6 In which ways? When I hear the words "working class" I get Dickens-vibes. Since the UK has belonged to the EU, and have been forced to adopt certain EU values and regulations over the years, I would imagine that the Dickens version does not exist in the UK, just like it does not exist in sweden.

@troed @Retreival9096 I think the problem is the "wo wo" crowd, raising LLM:s to the skies. That's just ridiculous.

Yes, they do some things well, yes, they might save me time on boilerplate or easy stuff, but no, they will not make me 10x faster.

They might make me 5%-15% more productive or so. But yes... I am not a programmer, but a devops guy.

I do know programmers though, and the most brilliant of them also are in the 5%-15% range.

@elston_ Excellent! The young are waking up. The scam is being exposed.

On the other hand... politicians flying private jets all over the world, and only connecting the environment with more authoritarianism and taxes, don't quite come off as trust worthy so they only have themselves to blame.

@elston_ This is the truth! To me, it has always been fascinating to think about, that given the amount of christiansin the world, let's say a billion or so, it seems like none of them ever read the bible.

I mean the pope? Jesus Christ (pun intended!)! He has his own country and travels in his own private jet.

For me it is pretty difficult to come up with a worse image of gods representative on earth, given what Jesus was teaching.

@ChrisMayLA6 we can afford it. It would also create a strong incentive to plan ones life and to become more long term in ones thinking. All of society would benefit from this.

The retirement dream, infatilizes people, and keeps them from taking control of their own lives.

@ChrisMayLA6 I think the mistake here is the concept of "retirement". The idea that anyone should be able to live and do nothing of value, financed by other peoples money, is incredibly destructive.

I would instead argue, that what it does, is that it enables more people to retire early, and ethically, since they would pay for themselves.

I also think that if this system was followed, the concept of retirement would disappear, and instead we would think about doing what we want to do, when

@ChrisMayLA6 In my experience, the children of the ruling class are sent to boarding schools, in sweden or abroad, and are more shielded from this, since they already have full access to their parents networks which gives them good salaries and positions of power and prestige early in life.

@ChrisMayLA6 working class professions that make more money if you count untaxed money, than the middle class.

In general, as an individualist, I think the class concept causes more problems that it fixes, but I think for the sake of discussion a distinction can be made between the ruling class (politicians, (some) nobility and captains of industry) and the rest of the population.

@ChrisMayLA6 Hmm. After thinking about it, I think I agree that the children of the elite are excluded, but besides that, I see a lot of young experiencing this, regardless of if they are working class or middle class.

In fact, I would argue that the distinction working class and middle class has lost all meaning in modern sweden (which is where I made this observation). The mobility between them is to easy, and there are no barriers, also, the taxes are so high, that it is rather the

@truthbait @[email protected] Haha... enter the "cerebral enablement team"!

@thefinn What I usually do...

1. Find relevant consumer law.
2. Hit them on the head with the law book.
3. Threaten to involve consumer rights agency, and make them aware of how much time they will lose compared with just giving you a refund.

This strategy has worked quite well for me.

@elston_ Yes! Christians are champions of peace, and as per their own book, forbidden to kill people. They should love and bless everyone including their enemies.

Now, you tell me how many true christians there are in the world! 😎

@lain XFCE is the Donald Trump of desktop environments!

@ChrisMayLA6 Add to that, that the person can contribute by saving in excess of that pushing the total even higher.

This wold solve 99% of all pension problems, and the best is probably to start phasing it in as we speak.

@ChrisMayLA6
The answer is very easy and has been staring us in the face for a long time. It is libertarianism. Everyone pays for his own retirement and retires when he wants and can afford it. It really is as simple as that.

To prove it, just take the payroll taxes paid, and apply that to an index fund from when the person starts to work, assume 7% growth over 40 years, and you will be surprised at how much money has accumulated.