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The good thing is Belli you probably worked and paid taxes for most of your younger years, this in turn helped support your parents generation and probably assisted those the same age and younger who chose a life of substance abuse and welfare.

If you had chosen a different lifestyle, you may well not be in a position now, where you can afford to support yourself through your later years and if your health fails you will pay a considerable amount of your wealth to access nursing care.

I know people who did and still do chose a life of substance abuse, who now are having their teeth removed and replaced on the public purse and will be on welfare for the rest of their lives and have been so until now.

The Government has to make it attractive for people to work and save for their own retirement, while paying for those who don't, if that stops so does the workers.

The more the difference between working and welfare closes, the more humans will chose not to work, that's life unfortunately.

Countries have tried to make a society where everyone gets the same whether they work or not and they all ultimately collapse.

Effort unfortunately has to be rewarded for humans to put in the effort, the alternative sounds nice, but it will always cause resentment from those who carry the load.