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Post by cjm on Jan 24, 2017 10:13:38 GMT
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Post by Trog on Jan 24, 2017 11:04:48 GMT
There is only one foolproof solution, really.
Which is to be stinking rich by the time you're 70, and to have adequate legal mechanisms in place to protect yourself, your wealth, and due diligence in the attention to your wellbeing. Andersinds is dit maar nag. It's a given that the state will not look after you, but in fact even private institutions will not look after you either.
The only other possibility is to revert to ages long gone - Mom and Grandmom stays at home, because their function is to care for the kids and the old folk, whose existence is financed by Dad, grinding his arse off.
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Post by cjm on Jan 24, 2017 11:28:22 GMT
There is only one foolproof solution, really. Which is to be stinking rich by the time you're 70, and to have adequate legal mechanisms in place to protect yourself, your wealth, and due diligence in the attention to your wellbeing. Andersinds is dit maar nag. It's a given that the state will not look after you, but in fact even private institutions will not look after you either. The only other possibility is to revert to ages long gone - Mom and Grandmom stays at home, because their function is to care for the kids and the old folk, whose existence is financed by Dad, grinding his arse off. I have some contact with people in charge of an old age home. The funding is a constant problem. They also testify to the fact that the black population shuns those institutions. Perhaps it is to give the family more readily access to the old age grants and pensions but the fact remains that whites on the lower end of the income spectrum have a problem. |
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Post by Trog on Jan 25, 2017 8:52:49 GMT
I'm vehemently opposed to the notion of a welfare state. But I believe that any person who paid a lifetime's worth of income-tax has a moral right to adequate funding when he can no longer provide for himself - irrespective of any arrangements of his own. 'Adequate' being proportional to his tax-contributions during his working life. Somebody like Anton Rupert should probably get about 2 million a month, or something.
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