Ironically, the capitalist country treated it as a secret tax, not the socialist one.
What capitalist country? The US is not a capitalist country, it is a country with mixed economy, the system you know you chose. Your views are kind of contradictory, aren`t they?
The way the free market deals with old age guys? DEATH. Rotting bodies in the streets. Ghettos. Beggers. Or at least the death squads hired by the rich to clean up the problem once it annoys them enough to make the investment worth while. (In other words the industrializing world 300-50 years ago.)
I hope this is intentionaly exagerrated comment and you dont actualy believe that freedom and man`s reason deals with old age guys like that. Beause that belief is more dangerous than you may think. To answer your questions – voluntary interpersonal cooperation helps where coercive authority failed miserably.
You are living in a bubble if you think life is so easy that everyone should save or pay the consequences.
Who is living in a bubble? Someone who thinks current pension systems are in incredibly good shape.
However, you have not explained why we should be forced to save for our own retirement? Why there should be an obligatory pension fund system? Why not leave it to an individual?
And yes, everyone should pay the consequences of their own action. What is so strange about it?
The proposed reforms are about one thing – to increase forced payments. It is the only way to keep the system alive for a little longer. Then it may seem to someone that the system is alive and well.
However, partial privatization does not solve one of the main problems with the whole thing – collosal waste within the state sector. Therefore it should be of no surprise that the funds are missing somewhere else – where they are needed, in other words the result is less funds available for charities which are far more efficient in looking after elderly.
State social policy displaces voluntary activities and makes people dependent on state and in turn it cannot properly look after them.
Has it ever occured to you why communism took hold in Europe and Asia? Could it have been massive uprising by the underclasses fed up with their lot in life?
Free market = Massive disparity = eventual revolution of the underclasses
Communism = Massive disparity = eventual revolution of the underclasses
Mixed system of limited socialist mechanism working within an otherwise free market economy = Massive but barible disparity = relative peace, with open and stable markets for the industrious to exploit yet the opportunity to just live a life for the less capable or 'driven'. for profits.
I hope you do realize that eventhough there is (or there will be eventually, but for a sake of the argument) a disparity on free markets, the living standards are far higher than living standards in communist countries? BTW speaking of classes, is marxism still being taught on canadian universities? Libraries on liberal universities all over the world are the only places of permanent revolution.
I know which i chose
Thats OK. But why do you force your choice upon the others? In other words, why do I have to (if I was a Canadian) be a part of your ”choice” (a part of CPP)?
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