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Pensions and Earnings
The problem with earning money in the world today, is that most
of us aspire to making money without earning money.
The newest buzz word on the subject, heavily promoted by the present
Government, is gambling. Casinos not factories are to be the source
of our wealth in the future. We have already gone a very long way
down that road by making the Stock Exchange are new religion.
Using shares as golden handshakes has made the stock exchange open
to us all.
“Are you too busy working to make money”. Is promoted
with a glorious picture of lying in a hammock between two coconut
palms, on a tropical shore, playing the stock exchange on your personal
computer.
It is hardly surprising that if you are old-fashioned enough to
earn money, you will be in desperate straits if you stop working
to rest in retirement. You will need a pension, but anything you
have saved, will have been dissipated by those who cream off the
wealth created by others, by making their living, gambling with
the value of money.
Those who make money without earning money, are robbing those who
do earn money. And yet they become the elite in our modern society.
Let us face the fact that it is unethical to acquire the wealth
created by others without earning some of it. You will come to feel
the truth of that badly, when you are required to work longer and
retire later.
Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB
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