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It's past time to take the whole damn pizza. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 days ago by [M] to c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
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[–] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

A 401k is a target date fund that is a mix of hundreds or thousands of companies. It is hardly comparable to the stock proportions that actual investors are playing with; and does not have the power of "buy, borrow, die" that the capitalist class enjoys to avoid taxation for generations of wealth.

A 401k a worker drops a couple hundred bucks into after each paycheck is hardly "the snake eating itself". It's a glorified savings account that makes stupid people feel like their interest align with those with actual capital. A 401k account is quickly becoming a means of the capitalist class gambling with your retirement savings account.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 day ago*

    These funds are all based off of money managers investing in set stocks with the intention for those stocks to impress with a good ROI.

    If I use the CPP as an example, decades ago all Canadians, through the CPP, bought a sizeable stake in Skype to then sell it years later for an immense profit. Do I individually have money I can put on the stock market to a sizeable amount? No.

    But if you are using an RRSP through a bank, as an example, you are leveraging the purchasing power of the bank including all the other people putting money into the same product you did.

    Economies of scale. 1 person may not make a dent but 3k people invested in the same RRSP? Yes. That RRSP may be in tech stocks or infrastructure or energy based on the product you purchased but rest assured as an individual you want "line goes up".

    So yes, we are the snake eating the tail.

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