Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
Do we have any particular reason to believe that poor 10-year-olds are significantly more likely to lose their parents than rich 10-year-olds?
Poorer physical and mental health, risk-factors such as smoking, drinking, drug-use, more likely to come from a single-parent household and thus have only one parent to lose.


Btw, the passage you quoted referred specifically to households with a head over the age of 45.

And I'm just pointing out the absurdity of Hazir's position. He's basically destroying the family as a social unit, as he's trying to destroy any benefit one has from being brought up by their parents. The only incentive Hazir creates is for people to stop working the second they make enough money to live for themselves.
I'm inclined to agree with your assessment. At the same time, no-one can know for sure before retirement exactly how much money they'll need or want in the decades after retirement. Moreover, there's nothing stopping them from sneaking their 18-year-old kids some cash or macbooks and tents.

alas, there are people for whom money matters a little too much. See link in previous page may be in our best interest to keep things as they are