>”the problem was (and largely still is even with the current gen) that they think that pension are "savings".”

Kind of. The problem is Western Boomers have a bastardised view of “””the social contract”””.

They believe, as there forebears did, that kids would look after their parents.

They believe this was systematised through the Boomer’s god - the State.

But that was never true, it’s not what happened, it is not reality.

The State setup a Ponzi scheme and the Boomers, in their arrested development, bought it hook, line, and sinker.

You’re right in that they see pensions as Savings. They think that they paid in and that money would be there for them in old age.

But where I disagree is that they weren’t scammed. They are adolescents in senior bodies. They were too brainwashed by the State (particularly via M5M), they believed too much, didn’t think to question anything, and now we have to deal with a massive generation of old people who live in an alternate reality as effectively children.

I’m not prescribing malice, rather naivety to a degree which we as humanity have no historic records of. It’s so bad I personally find it evil but I understand the pushback I get on going after Boomers too.