“Stai vivendo sul pane e sulla marmellata se sei fortunato” – vedova anziana in lotta per pagare le bollette mentre i costi continuano a salire
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/youre-living-on-bread-and-marmalade-if-youre-lucky-elderly-widow-on-struggle-to-pay-bills-as-costs-continue-to-soar/a1806230156.html
di Banania2020
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Has anyone considered eating the rich?
Marmalade?
Who do they think they are? Paddington?
When we were young we were lucky to have plain bread.
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Get this woman on Joe Duffy. I will pledge one bag of shopping.
I’ve always had tedious feelings about this stuff.
On the one hand, I don’t want the old to be hungry or in need.
On the other hand, they’ve had a lifetime to prepare for their old age, and it seems a very significant amount of people don’t bother to prepare a pension of any note themselves, they think the government will cover everything. This is an increasingly unstable, unattainable reality as the country gets older, and has less kids. The state pension was never meant to cover all of your needs.
On the one hand, I do believe we should provide. On the other, I know its often their own lack of preparation and an unsustainable system.
I don’t think there’s a clean fix. Looking at the pension rates of my the current generations, we’re fucked.
She’s right, one day we will all be old. The problem is, you need to plan for it yourself. Hoping the state will be able afford you is naive, and you’re told this your whole life.