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Originally Posted by Bogof
I cannot believe people would begrudge pensioners a pension. The benefit system has bred a generation of hateful, selfish over entitled <censored>.
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Me neither, which makes it all the more bizarre that people jump up and down about the welfare bill when most of it is going to those who have retired.
As far as those who are hateful and over-entitled go the generation after mine is going to be the first in a long time to be worse off than their parents so it seems they aren't actually entitled to much.
However intergenerational fairness probably isn't something we want to get into too heavily, especially as the end result is that those of maybe my age, just about, and younger are getting a thorough shafting to ensure that older generations get higher pensions, their houses stay expensive, they can charge high rents on the buy-to-let, etc.
As far as entitlement goes the 'entitled' generation is, by pretty much all measures, abundantly clear.