| Saving for your future isn't all that easy. There are a lot of people who have jobs that only pay minimal wage and these jobs are necceassary.
Like those who care the disabled and cleaning jobs.
With that kind of income you can barely cope with day to day survival let alone save.
Then you get the woman who marries with all the expectations and promises of a good life only to have the bastard skip out after a few kids have been born and she is stuck with the responsibility of raising them.
The best part of her working life is gone and by the time the expense of raising the kids is over she is considered to old and to out of touch or experience to get a decent paying job.
Not every one can afford to save and if they were paid enough to save no one would be able to afford to give them jobs.
But now we have better medicines and more active older people who are lasting longer and can do much more than just retire. So perhaps we should be looking at differnt ways of treating our elderly and not just retiring them when they reach a certain age. |