• TIEPilot@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    And in those cases I can find exception. (not for CC or educational debt, you bought the ticket. Take the ride)

    But if you willfully squandered your money and/or didnt sign up for the basic 401k at work then I have no pity. I’m an engineer, I found out the other day my coworker the same age as me has just signed up for a 401k. He left 6% on the table for more than 2 decades, fuck bailing that guy out.

    I’m all for a decent quality of living, just not on my back because you didnt do anything to deserve it.

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      11 months ago

      No but like that’s the point - the basic human decency thing means that it’s basic, inherent and needs no qualifiers. Even people you disagree with are still people who have inner lives all their own. They don’t deserve to starve and die just because they didn’t play some arbitrary money game we decided was important however many centuries ago the right way.

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      11 months ago

      If you think simply working your whole life isn’t enough to deserve a comfortable retirement, you’re a despicaple sack of shit