Tuesday, March 26, 2013  Day 334: Is Retirement The Same As A
Slave Purchasing Their Freedom?  For most of us, our goals in
life include marriage, kids and early retirement. The percentage
of people who are able to attain that last one is quite low -
most of us are forced to work well into our old age and still
don't have enough to survive without government assistance.
Sometimes that government assistance is enough to allow for a
dignified decay into death, but in many countries government
assistance isn't even enough to buy food to have a balanced
diet. How many retired parents have to move in with their middle
aged children? Most people I know have at least one grandparent
who lived with their kids.  Now, once upon a time, in a land
that is not quite so far away, there was a thing called slavery.
Now what this means is: one human being could own another human
being (like, say, a car) and treat that human being as property
or as an object to be used and/or discarded on a whim. As a
matter of fact, slavery d