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forthemiddle

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8. You want defined benefit pensions back

Reply to Farmer-Rick (Reply #7)

Wed Mar 30, 2022, 11:09 AM

Mar 2022

Yet you decry the provision of getting your work place to pay your student loans because "It's a way to shackle workers to corporations"

Don't pensions do the same thing? At least with 401Ks (with all of the warts) are portable. Very few people stay at the same workplace throughout their whole careers.

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You want defined benefit pensions back forthemiddle Mar 2022 #8

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