According to me, many companies are too tough today.
The competition is so tough more people are not able to work or get a job, because they're too ill.
Instead, they get early retirement pensions, but maybe few people will be able to work much later.
Do you understand that part?
The societies pay more taxes and other charges at the same time, because more people grants early retirement pensions.
In sweden, that's what it really is.
Is that so in your country?
I guess it's difficult in that way in most countries.
I don't like this situation at all.
Do you just, like, type all your posts in whatever your native language is and then run them through Babelfish?
Because I can't understand the point you are trying to make here.
EDIT: Or ever, come to think about it.
Considering I presume English is *your* native tongue, Wonderbat, I could quite often say the same of your posts.
On topic:
I guess you mean that many companies push their employees to work very hard, which can, in some cases, cause them to get so ill through stress that they have to take early retirement. At which point, the rest of us have to pay for their pensions through our social security payments.
In the UK, I reckon it depends on the industry. I'm opted out of the EU directive on working weeks, which means sometimes I've done a 50 hour week, sometimes a 37.5 hour week. It all depends on what work needs doing.
I think most people have an employer-run pension scheme, so when they retire early the State doesn't pick up the cost. The state pension only kicks in when they reach statutory retirement age (65).
In this country, there's certainly a lot of debate about the "pensions crisis". Basically, we have an aging population and people's own pension schemes are not likely to provide them enough to live on when they retire. Many companies are having to fund large deficits in their pension schemes. The state pension is already barely enough to live on and more funding will be required. Here, the government is trying to persuade people to invest in their own, private pension schemes.
I, for one, plan on saving for my own retirement, once I've bought a house. At the moment I invest in a pension scheme to which my employer also contributes, but which I can take with me should I leave the firm.
Is this the sort of thing you were thinking of?
I don't love the long hours, but I know full well there are companies out there where I wouldn't have to work so hard. So eventually, I will probably change jobs. I quite accept that it is my responsibility to save for retirement - the world doesn't owe me a living! 
DW
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I guess you mean that many companies push their employees to work very hard, which can, in some cases, cause them to get so ill through stress that they have to take early retirement. At which point, the rest of us have to pay for their pensions through our social security payments.
I guess that's what it really is in Sweden today.
Well, him being Swedish explains it. He just uses Babelfish. o.@
EDIT: Whoops.
Swiss= From Switzerland
Swedish= From Sweden
Wonder's sig has never been so pertinent.
