Quote Originally Posted by Eric Cartman View Post
I was talking to a friend from Austria and not knowing our system she said 'our system is x, it means that we pay for our parents and our children pay for us', it made me realise how infantilised the UK population was been, this delusion of 'i paid in' is so widespread because people have been lied to.
Aneurin Bevan once famously said this about the state pension scheme: “The secret of the National Insurance fund is that there isn’t one” Today's pensions are paid for by today's tax payers. So nobody should be under illusions how the system works.