>The UK system takes the national insurance contributions of workers but doesn’t invest them in anything on behalf of the individual. So despite decades of payments you technically have nothing at the end and survive on the goodwill of the government and current taxpayers. That works right now because of the population pyramid.
That's how Social Security works in the United States as well.
As someone coming back to C++ after more than a decade away, do you have any recommended resources on C++20 or open source projects you've seen that utilize the language this way?
In what other country does a jail sentence mean you get sent to another country to serve the sentence? (Except maybe the US now with detained immigrants)
If your firm's 401k plan allows it, you can contribute up to 32k post tax (it's not deductible) and then immediately roll over to a Roth 401k (google for "mega-backdoor Roth"). People don't realize that the IRA and 401k sections of the tax code are completely different, and they both have Roth sections, and the limits in one don't apply to the other.
> That is still reality in a lot of places in the world. We don't want to hear it, but there is some truth to the idea that you need a middle class income to afford middle class morality. There are parts of the world where large numbers of people have no hope of anything resembling a middle class American lifestyle.
Not only that, they likely don't even have hope of anything resembling a poor American lifestyle.