05-09-2017, 05:57 PM
Pensions, private or public, were an enticement for people to stay with the same employer over a long time instead of moving to another employer. With the gig economy that we now have, most people's loyalty goes no further than to do nothing that results in being fired.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.