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Current Events » in reply to Re: You didn't pay much.

I sympathize.

I've seen the warning on the website. Darth Vader comes up and says "I have altered the deal," and something you were counting on shifts drastically under you. It sucks.

"Mousie, thou art no thy lane," and all that.

But it's not the "job creators," the capitalists, the bankers, or evil Swiss gnomes. The problem with any defined pension system is sheer, bloody math. There is simply an upper limit to how many people you can pay to not work. If a society is rich enough, that limit takes a while to reach.

Europe is drowning in this, and the social upheaval that's resulting. I hope we still have a chance not to.

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