Then perhaps it should be said openly, that this is an elderly tax, not a pension and it should be just kept to the minimum, allowing people to save more of their own income for their own private pension.
Currently, it's the worst of both worlds: you get taxed quite a significant portion of your income, and then, in the middle of the game, someone changes the rules and tells you to play longer in order to get the prize.
While I agree with the post author on the "if I pay the subscription then there should be no ads" part, there is a bit that comes fairly often in such posts which I find rather funny: "sell my data to your advertisers"
Sorry, that's not how 90% of digital advertising works. The company doesn't sell your data, they just offer some other companies to put an ad in front of your screen based on some specific profiling.
But these ads companies don't receive a file called "Manuel Moreale personal data and shopping history"
Speaking from my own perspective of running general tech job boards [1], I would say that too narrow job boards have a really short lifespan.
This is because, you need a good supply of fresh offers to keep the audience. So if you end up to niche, you quickly become a job-ad-graveryard. Unless you scrap other big job sites automatically and somehow manage to filter and classify the jobs based on your niche.
It's quite ironic that the recent centralization and cloudarisation of the Internet (& electronic devices).
When everything was local and private, the attacker could only access a specific device or network, even if the security was often very weak. Now a single attack on a centralized entity has such a big payoff, that it makes if viable to allocate much bigger resources by attackers.
Yes, the market is pretty bad right now, and Indeed's data shows it quite well:
https://www.hiringlab.org/data (go to Sectors and choose Software Development)
We are currently at -64% from the 2022 peak job market and even -20% compared to pre-covid number of job openings.
Currently, it's the worst of both worlds: you get taxed quite a significant portion of your income, and then, in the middle of the game, someone changes the rules and tells you to play longer in order to get the prize.