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Chicago is also doubly-messed up because the city pays into the pension fund for City of Chicago teachers AND the pension fund for not-City of Chicago teachers.

There's a good 10% or so that's a sort of forced saving that goes into a pension pot.

Ah yes, fat salaries on other people's money, and a fat pension on other people's money!

Around $48 billion went into VC in 2014 but in the US alone there is $18 trillion in pension assets.

Err no you will have lost 30% or so of the value of the bond portion of your pension fund/ investments.

For people getting older and doing less or no manual labour, pension is not needed.

But with millenials, they're happy if they can take their 6 figure student loans and find any job at all, and a pension is a bizarre concept from a foreign world.

A few years ago there was a huge uproar when it was discovered that many of these cases were just pension fraud.

The families had a deal with the doctor not to report the death so that they could continue to receive pension payments.

Their number one job is to punch the clock and claim their pension.

But do pension funds actually have that much invested in that asset class?

Don't forget that VC money comes in a large part from pension funds.

Second the taxation leaves various compulsory "contributions": social, pension, wealth, tv, petrol etc.

Realize that you sound like the people that said: "I see my spouse as the person of the opposite sex that I want to marry." There are real challenges to handling society with n > 2 marriages (pension splitting, wills, children, etc), but how a person feels about their personal choices shouldn't impact consensual adults that feel otherwise.

Pension, 401k match, stock options, disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, etc.