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Originally Posted by Cimaron29414
How is "Ponzi scheme" a conservative framing?
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It's consistently employed by Conservatives for framing. It's an aspersion rather analysis. It's use as 'analysis' is nonexistent. Social Security is of such social utility that we need to fix it rather than let it die, but we can't increase the amount of money we're putting into it, afterall, it's a
PONZI scheme. It allows you to rationalize the
feelings that lead into statements like:
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Hasn't the average Federal salary risen to about 163% of the average private sector salary? You must have to pay big to find people smart enough to manage a program that will only pay me 74% of what they said they would
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It's utility is in the feelings, in the manipulation of saliency in view of subsequent judgment. Framing. It derails everything into the land of
feelings.
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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
I see you are uncomfortable that the venerated entitlement program parallels a popular fraud
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It derails everything into the land of
feelings. That's the utility. How is a program's failure to cope with demographic trends, and then letting everyone know 'we're having trouble coping with demographic trends, here are long projections' something that is best viewed through the lense of a scam? It's a totally useless perspective. SS needs to adapt to demographic trends. How is it at all reasonable to understand that in terms of a scam? SS and the schemes you cite have different functions and trajectories.
I'm having trouble thinking through why you think comparing it to a PONZI scheme is relevant to
anything but I more or less concluded it's an emotional thing. Why do you think it's bears mentioning?