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crimycarny

(1,351 posts)
2. Companies save a ton in building leases
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 12:37 AM
Nov 2020

And utilities, etc. Workers who work from home increase their electricity costs plus tend to work longer hours due to the fact that there is no psychological sense of physically leaving work.

plimsoll

(1,667 posts)
5. This guy bought in to the "Ponzi scheme" rhetoric.
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 09:50 AM
Nov 2020

Couple more things, it makes sense that commercial banks would want to force employees back into offices. If there is change to greater at home work it will be employers who get the benefits, but it will be easier to get individiduals to pay.

Is this a WR sock puppet?

TheBlackAdder

(28,165 posts)
8. He has standard beliefs of a typical small business owner, some RW and some liberal.
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 12:15 PM
Nov 2020

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But, to the younger people, they view Social Security as a Ponzi Scheme because it's something that, if the GOP gets their way, they will be paying into and then have taken from them later on. These are viewpoints that we need to be aware of, since a counter-narrative needs to be pushed to address this. People get ticked hearing it, but even the most liberal 20-somethings think they are paying into something that they will get fucked over with later on.

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Merlot

(9,696 posts)
6. He lost me at "social security is a ponzi scheme."
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 12:08 PM
Nov 2020

And last I heard, deutsche bank doesn't impose taxes.

TheBlackAdder

(28,165 posts)
7. To the younger people it seems like it is, since they fear they're paying into it.
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 12:11 PM
Nov 2020

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And Social Security won't be there for them. If the GOP had their way, that's a true belief.

Deutsche Bank does not impose taxes, in the video and the article linked, they are just fielding a tax proposal and trying to sell it to whomever will listen as another tax revenue stream.

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Merlot

(9,696 posts)
9. Younger people need to understand the meaning of Ponzi scheme
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 12:40 PM
Nov 2020

A Ponzi scheme is set up with the outcome to defraud people being the prime objective.

What republicans are doing is deliberate sabotage. The republicans have been trying to kill social security since it was instituted.

TheBlackAdder

(28,165 posts)
10. What Republicans are doing is what is making it a scheme to defraud the younger people.
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 01:04 PM
Nov 2020

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That being said, you stated you were lost at Ponzi Scheme, and I assume you rejected the rest of what was being said.

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NCjack

(10,279 posts)
13. Deutsche Bank should be thoroughly investigate for being "money washing machines"
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 02:21 PM
Nov 2020

for criminals, especially in Russia.

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