Night after night I get angry at having to hear the Big Fucking Lie

[quaker bill]

34. But, But the point is

no one truly "deserves" a pension, either you get rich and live off the accumulated wealth, or you just get old, suffer, and die.

Everyone is supposed to succeed and save, or suffer the consequences of failure. The problem with this theory is that most jobs the "job creators" are creating do not pay enough to cover daily expenses, even if you are quite careful. No one saves the money they need to put food on the table, they spend it and eat.

Back in the day, and really not all that long ago, they had this thing called the "company town". In the company town, the "company" owned everything, the homes, the stores, the job, the utilities, the bank, everything. It was all planned out (salaries and prices) so that at the end of the week, when all the bills were paid, each week you were just a little more in debt to the company. It was a form of quasi legal indentured servitude.

Today, it is more than one company, but the concept holds up. It is exceptionally true in this time if you are just poor enough. If you are just poor enough, you rent to own, paying way too much money for poor quality things, you get payday loans, you get a beater car from a buy here pay here place (paying thousands more than you would with cash because it is the only place that will finance you)....

There is a whole industry built around keeping many of us as poor as possible.