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They're not strictly taxes but they kinda are. They're mandatory and paid by workers into a fund but are linked to your future pensions. Like taxes they're automatically deducted from your salary and legally required but earmarked as to be used in the future.

Which has worked well for quite some time but I don't believe I'll every see any of the money I'm currently paying into the system.

[jijijijij]

No, on top of social security „taxes“, you also have something like 140 billion euro substitutions to pensions from income tax money, as far as I know. On top you get increased healthcare costs, cause boomer also get sick at that age. So young, working people pay thrice for their lifestyle. And in particular, those 140G€ are not spent on infrastructure and Germany’s future. Coincidentally, social welfare is a fraction of that, but aaall the rage to those boomers, who benefited from low taxes and high pensions, while spending 40 years in ignorance of their generation’s demographic burden.

Don’t forget, we got a young generation severely hurt because of COVID restrictions on their social life and education at the most critical time. That generation had the least to worry about the plague, it’s been pure sacrifice for old folks, who were the ones slowly suffocating in bursting emergency rooms. Two years of death and struggle and demographic crisis no more, but we were kind and compassionate, hidden behind webcams and masks at the prime of our youth. The boomers’ gratitude was shown by completely ignoring the climate crisis, the housing crisis (guess who got the houses…), the immense infrastructure debt, and instead increasing taxes etc., and of course making culture wars and hatred their scapegoat. The most egotistical generation ever.