When you think about the incentives at play, there's just no chance that they would have implemented a responsible defined benefit scheme.
They get credit with the labor leaders for having generous pensions, plus they get less grief from employees, and publicly they just make up some bullshit about how the numbers will work out decades down the road when they will have long since retired.
Yep, agree, everyone wins, except the future taxpayer who foots the bill! We are stealing from future generations to pay for current consumption and easy promises, culturally part of the buy now, pay later fiat mindset, which tbh affects us all...
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