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      For now anyway. Enshittification strikes too many products eventually.

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        Which is making me sad. 3d printing is so open atm, but I wouldn’t be surprised if enshittification will take place in this space in my lifetime.

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          That’s mostly going to be in the hands of Bambu I think, they only recently just allowed users to flash custom firmware onto the X1.

          If Prusa doesn’t come back with a strong challenger we will be in trouble IMO. They have that amazing corexy that rivals the Bambu in performance (but not price!) but for a lot of people it’s too big anyway sadly

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            There’s a huge world of clone printers, aftermarket mainboards, hotends, extruders etc. that doesn’t look like it’s going away.

            Some manufacturers may go closed but it’s way too easy to build your own printer for it to be a big concern in the FDM world.

            Resin on the other hand already has lots of custom slicers, firmware etc. probably because there’s a lot less mechanics and a lot more screen. But I’m not sure of the future of consumer resin anyways, a lot of people are realizing how toxic that unlabelled Chinese product really is.

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              I had someone a while back arguing that FDM printers were hopelessly toxic and resin printers would be the only ones on the market within a year. Naturally, this was well over a year ago.

              Resin printers have their uses, but man, they are a mess to use.

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          It sorta did, but pulled back. DaVinci tried selling printers that had chips in the filament spools and used the same razer blade business model as low end inkjets. Anet also sold printers that cut too many corners and they often caught fire.

          Then Creality made the Ender 3. I unironically think it’s a brilliant design. It cuts corners just enough to be cheap, but not so much that it’s useless garbage. They had two issues early on: lack of thermal runaway protection in the firmware, and a bad connector to the power supply. Both were fixable by end users, and both have long been fixed in shipping models.

          At the same time, companies like Prusa refused to join in that race to the bottom. Good for them. If you’re an established player like that and already have a reputation for quality, never get involved in a race to the bottom. That’s how you become what HP is now.

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      I’m just now having to replace my brother printer (HL-2170W) I bought in 06, because the NIC is toast.

      The printer still works great, but duplex printing sure would be nice.

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        If it still has working USB you can hook it up to a $10 raspberry pi with wifi to act as a print server. I can understand if that’s a more ambitious tech project than your ready to take on.

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          There also used to be network printer adapters in the past. For example, the Belkin F8T030 Bluetooth AP. Yes, Bluetooth AP. I’d like something like that just for fun. Perhaps not this one specifically, as it only supports BT-LAP out-of-the-box and requires firmware upgrade for BT-PAN. Good luck finding firmware for a niche product from 2003.

          But anyway, perhaps something like that (the printer part) is still made.

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          I’m a systems engineer, so it would be a short project for me. My homelab router could run the print server, but the USB port is currently powering my pi hole.

          I feel like there would be some way to rig an esp32 or similar micro controller to do the same thing (pis can be scarce atm

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            Rpi stock issues are well behind us. You can buy them straight up now. Even the 1GB RPi4.

            Esp32 may not have enough RAM to buffer large prints, especially if there’s a lot of graphics. It is possible to give it up to 4MB of external RAM, but that’s still not much.

            Pi Pico can do a 16MB external RAM chip. That’s starting to be adaqute.

            I had an HP 5si for a while with 20MB of internal RAM. It struggled with Postscript printing–could only buffer and print one page at a time. Did fine with HP’s own PDL drivers, though.

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              I still had some trouble getting the Zero 2Ws, but a lot of sellers still have a limit of 1 per order.

              I’ll probably use my Zero W for the print server once I replace the controller for my snake’s enclosure with a 2.

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          I haven’t had any reason to print in color for like 20 years. I’m sure many consumers are the same.

          If I do need to print color, I’ll pay $0.10 at UPS or the library or whatever to print it off.

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          Every inkjet printer on this planet has a choice. Cheap ink, accessible printheads, expensive. You have to pick one.

          Certain Hp? Expensive cartridges but new print heads with every cart. Epson ecotank? Cheap ink but non replaceable printheads. High-end printers? Insanely priced printheads and ink.

          The only way out is laser.

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          But have a close look at the model you are buying. We recently noticed that the relatively cheap Epson Ecotank we bought for our daughter is a bit difficult to maintain. You simply have no access to the printheads.

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          I think I’ve only bought 3x toner cartridges, and one of those got lost because I shook the old one and it just kept working for a year or two.

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      They’re about as bad. But a new set of ink cartridges and they immediately go “empty” within two months even if you’re not using them. Switch to a laser jet.

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    Excuse me - if I bought your product and paid for it, in what universe am I not investing into you, and instead you are investing into me??

    HP is a steaming pile of shit.

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        I know we assume they’re following the “razor blade” model but I actually find it hard to believe the printers are sold at a loss given how cheap it is to produce at this point.

        Unless by “loss” we’re saying “less than HP thought it could extract.”

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          They’re absolutely not producing them at a loss. The loss is only in their projections and expectations to price gouge their customers.

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            I just looked. You can get an HP Deskjet on Amazon for $40. They are producing those at a loss and expecting people to pay for their bullshit ink subscriptions.

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              Right. There isn’t a printer under $150 that anyone should even consider. If you can’t afford the upfront cost, then you won’t be able to afford the ink of the “cheap” end of the market.

              More people should consider not owning a printer at all and using a FedEx print shop or some such. I get the convenience argument for having one, but consider it.

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                I invested $150-200 on a Brother laser printer a very long time ago. Like we’re talking USB 1.0 era long time ago. It still works just fine. I’ve had to replace the toner cartridge once. Those things are workhorses. They will last until the sun goes out. Get one of those if you need a printer. It will still be compatible with your OS, the quality will be all you’ll likely ever need, and you don’t even have to worry about getting a new one because you can get an ancient one on eBay for a very low price and it will still be fine. All you’re missing is color and even if you print a lot, like you said, go to FedEx if you need color because it will probably be cheaper than ink anyway.

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        They want to make it a subscription that starts automatically when you buy the printer. No payment or the linked credit card expires, no more printing. Keep on paying for that subscription each month even if you don’t print a single page.

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      The real question here is where are the Chinese printers?! I mean, it’s a big market, why aren’t they getting into it?

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        Xiaomi makes a couple of expensive standard inkjets, but mostly they make photo printers. That’s the only one I can think of.

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        It’s really hard to break into it. Being accurate enough to print at 300dpi is very difficult, and that’s not particularly impressive. If it’s color, then the problems are multiplied. You have to precisely align four different print heads (minimum), and the ink needs to be mixed just right for accurate colors.

        This is also why you don’t see open source 2d printers like you do for 3d printers. On the surface, adding a third dimension seems like it’d make things more complicated, but 3d printers don’t need the level of accuracy that 2d printers do.

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          But I would think TVs and microchips are more complicated than printers. And those two have been cracked by the Chinese.

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      HP is intentionally getting this twisted in the hopes that we won’t notice. But too bad; we noticed.

      The only possible way for a “virus” to be embedded in an ink cartridge is because there is software (or firmware, I guess) in that cartridge. The only reason there is software in an ink cartridge in the first place is because HP needs it to be there for their own nefarious purposes, to wit attempting to prevent you from using third party cartridges, and also to lock you out of using cartridges that may still be full of ink under their stupid “instant ink” scam.

      Without that, the cartridge would just be a box of ink which is all it actually needs to be. HP could have avoided this entire fiasco by… not putting dumbshit DRM firmware in their cartridges in the first place.

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          People say that, but…

          I had a Canon Pixma ip5000 back in the day that had ink cartridges with no electronics in them. For ink level sensing there was an LED and photodiode built into the carriage that the cartridges went into, in the printer itself. Not in the cartridges. They were transparent plastic, so the machine could just shine through and determine when ink was running low. For its usage gauge, it just calculated it based on print output vs. the volume of a new cartridge, assuming you put a full cartridge into it when you told it so. Yes, this meant you could also fool it by telling it you’d installed a new cartridge when you hadn’t, but it would still figure it out right away if you put a truly empty one in.

          And this worked just fine. No problems at all with that system. I used and abused that printer for years, doing volume printing for work with it (it could do 8.5x11 borderless!) until it just plain wore out. Probably after hundreds of thousands of pages.

          So no, I really don’t think having chips running arbitrary code in a goddamn ink cartridge is actually necessary in any way.

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            Crazy idea here: How about not monitoring the ink at all?

            Why does the printer need to know? It’s not like it’s going to explode from not having fresh ink anyway. Just put the ink in a visible container where the user can look and see if it being empty is the cause of a shitty print.

            I’d buy any printer that doesn’t attempt to monitor the ink.

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              Maybe so people know to buy a cartridge so it’s on hand before the one runs out, so you’re not having to run to the office supply store in the middle of an important print job? But that’s more of a convenience thing, not necessary.

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                Yeah, just make it work like a car’s fuel tank. It has a gauge to say how much is in it. It has a hole so you can add more. Some cars will guess how far you can drive, give or take, based on how much fuel is in the tank. If the fuel gets very low, a more obvious warning will pop up in case you weren’t watching your gauge. But otherwise it just keeps driving in the meantime and if your car needs high octane and you give it low, it will try to run it anyways and if it fucks up the engine, then that’s on the user.

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              Actually with some print heads they will be damaged if there is no ink

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              If it is visible to the user, that means light is hitting it and helping degrade it. Given how rarely people prove these days, you are more likely to end up with a gunked up cartridge.

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      They could avoid the possibility of a virus by not having chips in them. Pretty simple fix.

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    We have seen that you can embed viruses into cartridges, through the cartridge go to the printer, from the printer go to the network

    Hey dipshits, this is possible because you built firmware into your printer cartridges to prevent 3rd party cartridges in the first place

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    “We have seen that you can embed viruses into cartridges, through the cartridge go to the printer, from the printer go to the network, so it can create many more problems for customers.”

    If the cartidges didn’t have drm chips you wouldn’t have anything to load with malware to begin with.

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      Because that interview is for investors. He’s looking out for the shares price, not his customers. We can always buy other products, like Canon or Epson. It’s too bad because HP printers are the best, but not enough to let us be robbed like other brands.

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    Buying HP products is bad investment.

    I only had the chance to two of their inkjet printers and one of their office laser printers, plus an elitebook laptop. In short, all of them suck.

    Much better (to me, the best) alternatives, that I can safely say are good investments: Canon for inkjet printers, ThinkPad T and P series for laptops. Those are quality products. Unfortunately I don’t have any experience with other office laser printers, so I cannot recommend one.

    Edit: specified which series of ThankPads are still good.

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        Well, I guess it depends on the use case. For me, mine was a damn good investment for sure.

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          Well if you print lots of photos then maybe but that’s about it.

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            If you print lots of photos in the USA, printing to the nearest drugstore (Walgreens, rite aid) is certainly cheaper.

            If you print a lot of documents in the USA, printing at the library is often free, sometimes a small fee.

            Not sure on other countries, but here in the USA, I’ve found a printer completely unnecessary.

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              I kinda agree about the photos, but when printing documents, it’s almost always something I need immediately. Going to the library is quite inconvenient.

              I bought a used brother laser printer for 15€ and got two 1000 page toner Cartridges for it for 20€. That’s quite a lot of printing for 35€ total and that will be enough for years with my needs. Definitely worth the convenience imo.

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                I agree. I have a brother laser printer. However, I’m currently traveling and have it packed away in a trailer. I’ve found the library more convenient than unpacking it. For now. Haha

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          Can’t you use the drug store for photos and the library for documents?

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      ThinkPad is now Lenovo just FYI. They were acquired some years ago and now Lenovo makes and sells the ThinkPad line of hardware

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          Yeah, Lenovo has owned ThinkPad for ≈ 6 more years than IBM ever did.

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        I know. Still, that’s the best hardware out there for laptops. I have to add though, only the T and P series are worth buying, the rest are trash.

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          Not anymore. Even those are garbage in the last 5ish years.

          Shit build quality and barely repairable

          Stay away from modern thinkpads

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            Check again.

            At least the T580 I worked on was the best quality laptop I’ve laid my hands on. My current M1 MacBook Pro is close, to some extent. It’s a great machine too, and obviously better in performance as it’s newer, but in laptop keyboards, ThinkPad’s is still no.1, not to talk about the track point that, to this day, no other manufacturer could properly reproduce. I worked with a Dell Latitude (a couple of years ago they were great), but the track point is shit on it.

            Regarding maintenance, Lenovo provides detailed disassembly and repair guides, plus you can get replacement parts anytime.

            Of course there are shit decisions on the ThinkPad line as well, but I still only can recommend them.

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              nope. had a T580 which reproducably crashed when you picked it up by the right side. Likely from mainboard flex. And checking online, it’s not a unique case.

              And two months after the waranty, the ssd control chip or something broke which basically shredded any data on the ssd. Repair would have been almost as expensive as getting a new one.

              Now I’ve switched to framework for work and personal use and don’t regret it

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                Hmm that’s unfortunate. Wherever I worked so far, ThinkPads didn’t break, even after the warranty expired.

                Well, I wish you better luck with your Framework laptop(s) then.

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        Not OP but I only use a brother MFC black&white laser printer for printing documents at home. It addresses the HP issue in 2 ways. 1 - The genuine brother toner costs much less per page to the point that it’s not terrible to have to buy it if necessary. And 2 - brother does not put DRM on their printer and there are tons of 3rd party toners available at about 1/3rd the price. Generally brother printers cost more up front, but basically last a lifetime, and the toner is pretty cheap. I’ve had the same printer for around 12 years now, and it still prints fine. I don’t print a lot at home so I’ve only had to buy 4 3rd-party replacement toners, which have cost around $80 altogether. I think the printer was $200 when I originally bought it.

        Also I want to add that if you need color inkjet printing, the Canon Megatank and Epson Ecotank printers are an awesome option for most home printing. I use a Canon g6020 at home for photo printing and I love the photos that come out of it.

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          Brother printers aren’t even that much more expensive than HP. I think you break even by the time you have to buy like 2 HP ink cartridges. Even the toner cartridges that the brother printers come with last what feels like forever and they’re not even filled up all the way.

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            Yeah it’s definitely cost effective over time, and the printers generally seem to be higher quality. I’ve heard about inkjet printers breaking a lot during moves, but I’ve moved with my brother printer like 5-6 times and it’s been fine through everything.

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          Epson seems like a great choice, until you learn about the ecotank sponge issue.

          You can buy a new waste ink sponge for next to nothing, but the firmware counter needs to be reset. That requires either a sketchy piece of software from some Russian hacker, or shipping the printer to epson and then paying epson for 5min of work and return shipping. The latter is rumored to be about the same price as a new ecotank.

          But you’re happy with your megatank? I might look into that… I stopped looking at inkjets after hearing about the ecotank.

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            Wait, I thought the counter can be reset with some specific button presses only. I’ve seen the video guides on YouTube.

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              w00t? I will really have to look into that. There’s a reasonably priced 2nd hand A3 ecotank in my vicinity, and I’ve been avoiding it because of this.

              Do you have sources?

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                Dang, I can’t find it anymore. I swear I watched a video about an ecotank counter reset once, since I was also interested in buying it one time. I’ll have to dig into my YouTube history.

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                  I’ll have to dig into my YouTube history.

                  That can be quite the adventure, which I won’t ask you to undertake. Because google returned a result from the site with the subs, where someone has gotten a copy of the original epson maintenance software ;)

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            Yeah the Canon has been pretty good. I’ve had it for around a year now. I sort of print in batches, like I’ll have a week where I print a few photos then nothing for a month or so. When I had a long break once (2-3 months), the printer started printing streaks so I had to run some sort of fixing cleanup cycle which fixed the issue although it wasted some ink. I haven’t had to buy any replacement ink yet because again I don’t print a lot, but I’m sure if I was using a traditional inkjet I would’ve had to buy replacement ink cartridges a few times already.

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        For home usage, a later printer toner cartridge will last you years and won’t go bad. Ink jet printer cartridges are way more expensive and dry out which is why they constantly need replacing. Brother is a much better brand than HP.

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        Brother makes their money on printers and printer support (like really big offices that print thousands of documents a day, those printers have special techs). They don’t make as much on ink sales so they don’t really care about third party ink cartridges.

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        You can buy 3rd party toner for Brother and they don’t lock you out of your own printer for doing it.

        On brother printers, if the printer says toner is out and you can’t print, you can press a key combo on the printer to reset the toner page counter and then continue printing until there is literally no toner left at all.

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        It’s funny how much worse Lemmy is at downvoting simple questions than Reddit. People on here treat every question as if it was asked with bad intentions.

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          I’m not sure, but I think part of the problem is that the votes are “real”. Since every instance has to have the same number of up/down votes they can’t get away with fudging the numbers. I have no hard evidence that reddit does, but I suspect they do to increase engagement.

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    Every time a customer buys a printer, it’s an investment for us. We are investing in that customer, and if that customer doesn’t print enough or doesn’t use our supplies, it’s a bad investment.

    Brother, for the love of anything holy, please do not follow HP’s path.

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    21st century business innovation seems to be make everything a perpetual subscription model, rather than providing better value with new products. It doesn’t make you brilliant as a CEO, may as well just replace you with AI, right? That’s what all the cool investors care about now, right?

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    Later in the interview, he added: “Every time a customer buys a printer, it’s an investment for us. We are investing in that customer, and if that customer doesn’t print enough or doesn’t use our supplies, it’s a bad investment.”

    This makes me want to buy 10 million printers and then just sent them on fire…

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    This just screams that it’s a bad investment to buy HP stock at the moment. No company will insult their potential customers if they aren’t desperate.

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    investors should be taken to a remote island and left to fend for themselves

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      investors should be taken to a remote planet and left to fend for themselves.

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              Why research, post a statistical number, and completely abandon reading anything else in the article for context? Stating a number that you have no idea what it’s defining? You’re spreading misinformation for some weird “I was right” gotcha comment. The literal next line where you got 56% from,

              Percentage of workers participating in a pension plan: 19

              This includes all types of employment, for just private it’s a measly 11%. State and local government employees bump up all of the stats. Nice little tidbit at the end: "A pension plan is a traditional or hybrid defined benefit plan. In 2022 forty one percent of workers in private-sector pension plans were in plans that were closed to new entrants.

              How does this vary from previous years? What are the different types of definitions and actual “benefits” that the employee may see. What are the differences in private and public sector “retirement plans” (or contribution vs defined benefits). I’ve been reading through the BLS.gov website in regards to all of this and it’s one sad fact after another. But sure, put a healthy untrue spin on it to win some internet points while completely missing the context, skewed facts have never caused any harm.

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                Yeah, I stopped researching it. Perhaps we should go back to the more measured approach from earlier in the thread.

                investors should be taken to a remote planet and left to fend for themselves.

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                  Well instead of forming emotional opinions we can try an educated opinion next? You really do yourself a disservice by saying you have no idea what you’re talking about.

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      Not gonna lie, thought that said “inventors” and I was like, “I’d watch that.”