Right now the cap on the payroll tax is at around 150, very much to the point if wealthy people are living longer than means testing the benefits would reduce payments to them more. Of course the problem with that is that there's a lot less rich people than poor ones.

Also almost all of these ideas go against the principle of ss, which was to be a government sponsored retirement program you paid into and got out once you retired. Basically all of the ideas to fix it completely neglect that (out of necessity.)

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Wealthier people live longer and draw social security longer. The percent of gdp over the cap has increased since the 1980s even with the yearly increase in the cap. It’s also why there is a big jump from 24% to 32% in income taxes at $183,000 but that could be up to $200,000 using 401k deduction. The way I look at it is once you make that much money, you are probably lucky that whatever career path you picked is in demand. Democrats generally say they would create a donut hole by applying the tax on income over $250,000

That's a fine weight. I weigh the same although I'm slightly taller than him.

You are much more than "Decently Attractive". Very pretty, don't sell your self short. Saying this as a white male.

I'm actually excited to break the payroll tax cap by a few k this year!

On that note, the point of the cap is to say "hey you've put enough into ss to save for retirement, keep the rest." Imo I'd rather they means tested the benefits than increase the cap.

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…or it’s a sneaky ad for Hinge. Not accusing OP…I just hate that I can’t trust anything online without wondering if someone is trying to buy my eyeballs.

Warren gets it

for all it is worth it, you can just https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmi-m.htm and see the answer

Thank you for being kind to the dude who didn't read your comment

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Oh interesting, specifically force the algo away from what it is currently prioritizing. Might have to try that myself.

I almost want to advise people who use hinge to make a common practice to periodically go through the settings and uncheck the top 2 ethnic groups they see in their feed. Take time once a week maybe to explore the groups of people the algorithm is hiding from them.

Maybe the algorithm is right after all and you are more likely to match with certain groups, but maybe it’s not perfect and it’s artificially limiting people’s opportunities.

This advice is especially for straight men, as anecdotally the match rates are low across all demographics.

>you shouldn’t sell yourself short

The way I describe it is: if you ask men to describe their “type” (hinge) they will almost never describe someone who physically looks like me. But if you show a man my photo and ask “smash or pass” point blank (bumble), I usually do okay.

And not raising the debt limit means not paying the interest to social security funds and thus destroying it. I think some republicans see it getting two birds with one strike. Destroying the social security funds and wrecking up u.s. economy while democrats hold the white house. Perhaps getting some nice golden parachute from russian or chinese oligarchs.

Probably a dumb question here, but what's the source of the increased asset reserves since the late 80's? The gap in income vs. cost seems too low.

youre even taller than me, im 158cm and sitting at 72kg, i was hovering around 80kg last year, i managed to drop a few kg the past few months.

what are you on? or am i just too fat? XD

EDIT: Stupid me, i forgot my height, Im 178cm, not 158cm, i get confused this late at night. im more familiar with imperial system when it comes to heights, lol.

For plotting, I used matplotlib and the XKCD style option to get the hand-drawn vibe.

Is there a program for the hand-drawn look?

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> Why are you so light? What is you height and gender?

163 cm, male.

Why are you so light? What is you height and gender?

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Sweet tracking, congrats on the weight loss since the pandemic!