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It depends how you word it. 'Would you rather put your money in stock indexes or pay out N shares of 1/N of your contribution to old people then hope and pray the same is done for you' ( which is more or less the realistic question for the middle class ) and I bet they'd say shitcan it.


With that wording most would struggle to understand the question.

I also would like to believe that quite a small minority see social spending solely as a personal investment.


The question isn't so much whether social spending is a personal investment but rather whether trigger pullers with badges and automatic weapons enforce it or the laborer personally invests as he sees fit in ways that enable social charity and retirement without the threat of imprisonment.


I'd bet around 100% of the population support trigger pullers with badges and automatic weapons to enforce the rule of law.


Sure but the question is about the law that the trigger pullers enforce. If the laborer can invest his retirement rather than having it taken, redistribute, then told if there is no Trump v2 maybe there will be something for him -- maybe he decides the rule of law is to put the power of social spending on the individual rather than a corrupt government who's treasury system is controlled by unelected billionaires.




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