On 16/02/2015 6:29 AM, Hypatia Nachshon wrote:
On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 2:56:35 PM UTC-8, Fran Farmer wrote:


We are very well off in our retirement and that is due to the
Capitalist system but we could certainly survive very happily on a lot
less than we have coming in.

Is there a non sequitur in there? Straight question.


I'll reword it and let you be the judge. We live on private retirement
income earned from our own efforts within a capitalist arrangement. If
we relied on the Old Aged Pension, that, it could be argued would be
form a socialist arrangement since it is paid to old people by the State.

Our income comes as a result of paying into funds for our working lives,
we also have income from investments. If got significantly less of the
amount of money coming in that we currently do, we could still survive
well with all our needs catered for. We would be happy and content in
both circumstances but I doubt that we would be happy if we had to
survive on the Old Age Pension. That is way too little money for comfort.