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ProfessorGAC

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4. Apparently, Antoni Doesn't Know What A Ponzi Scheme Is

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Wed Aug 13, 2025, 03:49 PM

Aug 2025

The simplest reason it is nor, is that in a Ponzi scheme, the investors don't know where the promised benefit/returns are coming from.
That is not, nor has it ever been, the case with social security. How it works has been clear, obvious, and transparent since its inception.
Antoni is just another libertarian crank who knows way less about finance than he thinks he does

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Trump Labor Statistics Pick Called Social Security a 'Ponzi Scheme' That Should Be Shuttered [View all] CousinIT Aug 2025 OP

Thanks for this, we take shit when we predict they will take our Social Security and Medicare Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #1

Yeah, I know. People take it for granted while they are whittling away at it... CousinIT Aug 2025 #2

Multiple responses just in the last week I could show you if I had the time to do it and it's people who Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #3

Apparently, Antoni Doesn't Know What A Ponzi Scheme Is ProfessorGAC Aug 2025 #4