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Attention over time

7-day rolling share of analyzed posts/comments mentioning this entity · 90 daily points ending 2026-08-13

Final complete day: 2026-08-13. Attention was 0.6% — this entity appeared in 18 of 2,951 analyzed posts/comments in the seven days ending that day (18 mentions).

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1. 2026-08-13 23:32 UTCComment

   Solo 401k is underrrated for exactly this reasonb. The employee contribution limit alone is $23,500 in 2026 before you even add the employer side, versus SEP-IRA which caps at 25 % of net income. For someone with moderate self-employment income the Solo 401k can get you way more MAG I reduction. The one thoing that trips people up is the Solo 401k has to be opened before December 31 of the tax year, whereas SEP-IRA you may open and fund allthe way until the filing deadline. So if someone is reading this in Q4 and doesn't have one yet, that's th timing to be aware of.... $45k contribution bringing you to low 40s MAGI is a great outcome. Did you do traditiona contributions only or mix in some Roth???

2. 2026-08-13 02:05 UTCComment

   Oh yeah. I’ve dealt with it. I am retired and under 65 so I don’t get Medicare. I live off a cash account I pull from monthly but I have cap gains due to trades and this year had to trade out of many assets and had some huge cap gains a which put me over the $62.6k threshold last month. Once that happened I had to adjust my marketplace income from $62k to $85k. This was all cap gains from a taxable brokerage account and not W-2. And since I’m retired I don’t really put money back into a IRA or Roth and my max would only be $7k. So it doesn’t help me much. The MAGI jumped my premium from $20/mo to $750/mo. The kicker here is I pay the $750/mo to the insurance company but I owe the feds the back payment(Jan-July) on April15. As they adjust the tax form. 1095-A I think. Then you owe the back payment. I cancelled my insurance for the remainder of 2026. And I’ll just pay the fine on my taxes for the back months retro. This happened last year to but later in the year which sucked too as I owed 10mo vs 7mo of the increased rate. I have not figured out a way to limit my cap gains as I have a system I employ with trading that has been super beneficial to my net worth to survive. I have no clue if it will last or not. But why risk it. $750/mo with a $12k deductible seems worthless to me. $21k payout before any benefit annually seems just wealth extraction to me. So opt to pay out of pocket. If I can stay below $62.6k then great but I don’t see it happening any time soon. I rather grow my stash then stay below that number and not give anything back to the insurance thieves. I’m not sure I can put $7k into each IRA. I think it’s one only. Plus the HSA under the PPO plan but it still doesn’t get me the deduction to MAGI I need to get under the $62.6k. I don’t think this matters anyway. As the system is broken, corrupt and built for the wealthy or the employees but still isn’t fair to the employers. Healthcare is the biggest scam in the US. The next is the mortgage industry.

3. 2026-08-13 00:24 UTCPost

   one employee moving countries somehow turned into a crash course on global employment - i've been trying to figure out how to keep my current job while relocating abroad, and the work itself isn't the problem. my company is perfectly happy for me to remain remote. the complication is that they don't have a legal entity in the country i want to move to. rather than asking them to set one up, i've been researching employer of record services and trying to make the case that an eor could handle the complicated parts of international. on paper, it sounds straightforward: the eor provider becomes the legal employer and handles global payroll, taxes, benefits, employment contracts, and compliance with local labor laws. my company would still manage my work like they do now. what i'm trying to understand is the employer's actual workload. once the employee onboarding is done, does using an employer of record mean the company mostly just pays a monthly invoice and handles normal management? or are there still recurring tasks around international payroll, employment compliance, reporting, or other admin that companies should expect? would especially appreciate input from anyone who's used deel, remofirst or another eor for a single remote employee.

4. 2026-08-12 23:59 UTCComment

   I can see someone from Genki is reading comments on here so let me just share my partner’s and my experience. We’ve used Genki on and off for years, I started using it super early when it was still giving start up vibes and always had good experiences with them. I felt I could rely on them. They partnered with Allianz which was great. Now, I’m not sure when this happened exactly, but between my last sign up and my partner signing up with them again, they’ve now changed to partner with Squarelife and let me tell you… Squarelife SUCKS. Their customer service is literally SO rude, I had one of their employees literally yell at me on the phone. A bit of background: my partner has multiple herniated discs from an injury many years ago, which he had surgery for. Sometimes this flares up and he needs steroid shots but that part is what it is. Unfortunately he got a new injury this year, unrelated to the old injury, and Squarelife refused to help him even though he was in excruciating pain and it was clearly a new injury in a completely different place. We ended up having to hire someone to fully dissect THEIR OWN terms and conditions, and once we did, the tone changed completely. Now they were sincerely sorry for not helping and wanted to spare no expense. After we had already been paying customers for years, spent days at the hospital trying to work this out, and had been yelled at over the phone for wanting help from the people we pay to help us (ugh this part annoys me so much). It was truly giving “oh unfortunately we didn’t manage to scam these guys cause they actually read the t&cs so now let’s backtrack”. Incredibly unprofessional when people’s health is at stake. Genki, you’re shooting yourself in the foot with this switch from Allianz to Squarelife and we’ve already warned many in our digital nomad network because unfortunately we just can’t count on you anymore. It’s a real shame cause I’ve been a fan in the past.

5. 2026-08-12 16:00 UTCComment

   You apparently do not understand what freelancer is. It's not an employee.