Pensions in theory are nice, because it guarantees you a certain quality of life after you retired.
Yeah, that’s the scam. They say you will get some income after retiring, what they fail to tell you is that they will never allow you to retire. The retirement age will keep getting pushed back. The truth is that you will have to work till the day you die.
We should just abolish pensions.
Every month the government takes money out of my paycheck to supposedly pay for my pension. Every month my employer puts money into a mandatory pension scheme.
My expected pension age according to a government website is 68 years and 6 months. By the time I reach that age it will probably have been raised to 70+.
My parents died at 72 and 70. I will never see once cent of the money taken from me during all those year working. Pensions are a scam, let’s acknowledge that fact and just get rid of them. pay out that money every month so I can enjoy it instead of saving for something that will never happen.
It’s actually quite rare for cats to kill birds, it’s a skill very few cats have. None of our cats has ever brought back a dead bird, while they have gone on an absolute killing spree among the local mouse population.
The birds around our house (mainly jackdaws, which are wicked smart) like to taunt the cats though.
But you won’t.
By the time I’m 67, the retirement age will be 75, by the time I’m 75, the retirement age will be 80. The whole thing is a scam. The boomers get to enjoy retirement and they have us pay for it which is why they keep dangling that carrot in front of us, but realistically it will never happen for my generation or anyone after. Due to advances in medicine people get older and older, while costs keep rising. It’s simply not sustainable anymore to have that large a part of the population not working while simultaneously costing a lot of money in care.