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Noteworthy News
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(March 26, 2024 at 3:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, says the idea of Americans being able to retire at 65 is an outdated notion.

His estimated net worth is 1.2 billion.

Boru

Outdated toward which direction? As 65 being too old or not old enough?
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P Diddy houses raided.
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(March 26, 2024 at 3:55 pm)Foxaèr Wrote:
(March 26, 2024 at 3:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, says the idea of Americans being able to retire at 65 is an outdated notion.

His estimated net worth is 1.2 billion.

Boru

Outdated toward which direction? As 65 being too old or not old enough?

Not old enough. He said something like, ‘I’m 71 and I’m still working.’

Yeah, you’re also not digging ditches, you clueless bunghole.

Boru
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(March 26, 2024 at 4:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(March 26, 2024 at 3:55 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: Outdated toward which direction? As 65 being too old or not old enough?

Not old enough. He said something like, ‘I’m 71 and I’m still working.’

Yeah, you’re also not digging ditches, you clueless bunghole.

Boru

Of course, it's also his outlook because the longer the labor is working the more money he makes. And it's common knowledge the age is increased for the sole benefit of paying out less because it's a misnomer that everyone is living longer.
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(March 26, 2024 at 3:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, says the idea of Americans being able to retire at 65 is an outdated notion.

His estimated net worth is 1.2 billion.

Boru

It seems more like he's talking about something a bit closer to based: namely, that people aren't saving enough for retirement and that we need to rectify that. Admittedly, he does not seem to point out that part of the problem is that people aren't paying their employees enough to save and that things are just getting more expensive.

And the retirement age seems to be a smaller part of the document that he's talking about, and even that has a very understandable argument behind it: namely, that it's part of a balancing act to ensure that, when one grows old enough to retire, they'll actually be able to get those retirement checks from Social Security. Like it or not, the situation for Social Security is dire enough
that, in 2034, it’ll only be able to afford to pay retirees 75% what they are now.
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(March 26, 2024 at 3:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, says the idea of Americans being able to retire at 65 is an outdated notion.

His estimated net worth is 1.2 billion.

Boru

Really?

I'm retiring in a few years.

But, as you said, I'm not digging ditches.

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(March 26, 2024 at 4:41 pm)brewer Wrote: P Diddy houses raided.

I have always thought he was a creep...just didn't really expect it to be on this level.
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(March 26, 2024 at 8:26 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(March 26, 2024 at 4:41 pm)brewer Wrote: P Diddy houses raided.

I have always thought he was a creep...just didn't really expect it to be on this level.

I immediately thought of R Kelly. We'll have to see how this shakes out.

I believe I saw that his plane left the country. He was spotted outside the airport prior.
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(March 26, 2024 at 5:15 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:
(March 26, 2024 at 3:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, says the idea of Americans being able to retire at 65 is an outdated notion.

His estimated net worth is 1.2 billion.

Boru

It seems more like he's talking about something a bit closer to based: namely, that people aren't saving enough for retirement and that we need to rectify that. Admittedly, he does not seem to point out that part of the problem is that people aren't paying their employees enough to save and that things are just getting more expensive.

And the retirement age seems to be a smaller part of the document that he's talking about, and even that has a very understandable argument behind it: namely, that it's part of a balancing act to ensure that, when one grows old enough to retire, they'll actually be able to get those retirement checks from Social Security. Like it or not, the situation for Social Security is dire enough
that, in 2034, it’ll only be able to afford to pay retirees 75% what they are now.

I know exactly what he’s talking about - privatizing Social Security by legally requiring people to invest a portion of their earnings in stock and money markets. Guess what kind of company Black Rock is.

Also, innit funny how people with billions of dollars never seem to suggest taxing the rich to save Social Security?

Boru
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That it's easier to borrow money from social security than tax the rich really speaks volumes.
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