My sis found this on FB: "Now that the Dow is at an all time high ...

[graham4anything]

6. one forgets a major economic point

everyone in their life who worked for a company who gave them health insurance from day one of their working life
never were taxed on that freebee they received(and probably most didn't even know or care they had it)

and over the years, that would be equal to 100s of thousands of dollars a self-employed had to pay out of their own pocket, on money that was 100% taxed.

and yet, those same people are whining their health insurance bills may go up $100 bucks, after years of getting it free and reaping the benefits from something they never called a benefit but used to benefit themselves.

which is why I don't partake in the whine.

Did people expect to be given freebees their entire life, AND then whine about it too?
That is greedy IMHO.

I know from the last 21 years going from company paid to my own family plan, how many people don't even realize what they got for free and still get for relatively cheap, but they still whine anyhow.

(and granted there are others who don't work and have been left out, but those people always existed in all time periods, and this is not about them.)

Instead of going to the car wash once a month, banking those dollars for retirement and taking the hose and washing it oneself could have left a nice nestegg for harder times.
(proverbially speaking of course).