To think we shouldn’t have to contribute to soch if we don’t intend to use it?

Then when the time comes, you can take it and consider it your tax rebate

I'm guessing the reason they aren't going to get a pension is because they aren't from the UK and don't qualify for one. Wherever they are from pay SOCH or SOSH or whatever - since no one else has a clue what they are on about

There's no time limit for posting.

You're not in a position to police other posters' contributions.

One aspect you have conveniently overlooked is how interlinked our society is. You cannot say 'I am not getting x so I won't pay' when ultimately you are still benefitting.

For example, assuming you don't grow all your own food and weave your own clothes on your £75000 salary.... everything you buy has a chain of workers contributing to the production and distribution. Many of those workers will be paid so poorly, and offered such terrible occupational pensions so they will need a state pension. You indirectly benefit by this because their low wages keep prices down.

Some of the current pensioners you object paying for probably contributed in some way to your life prior to now - again, unless you live in a bubble.

I haven’t missed anything; I’ve read all of your posts and most others. I had nothing much to add, as others have said what I would have said so there was no point me just repeating the same messages.

I do wonder what boat I have missed; do you just not have any more pearls to drop into the discussion ? I don’t see a bandwagon; just a lot of people wondering what you are really trying to achieve.

If you don’t want to claim your state pension, you don’t have to but you shouldn’t get a reduction in national insurance contributions as current payments are funding those currently receiving their pension.

Circumstance could change, what happens if you needed a state pension for some reason and hadn't been contributing?

If she's for real, she's in desperate need of a dictionary. She accused us all of "parentifying ourselves" early in the thread. I think she meant becoming parents.

OP we can't parentify ourselves, it's a form of child abuse done to a person by their parents.

Can anyone opting out of the NHS wear a lanyard pal so if you get hit by a bus, I know hot to call an ambulance?

Can anyone opting out of the NHS wear a lanyard pal so if you get hit by a bus, I know hot to call an ambulance?

OP, I’m fascinated by you and this thread.

You have posted with obscure language and refused to explain. You have posted obscure concepts and refused to elaborate. You have posted that you believe you don’t need the NHS; that you would self-medicate and, other than TCP, haven’t given any insight as to how. Despite allegedly being of mature years you use childish language and arguments.

I’m not going to engage with your ‘concept’ because, as others have told you time and time again, it wouldn’t work but I’ll keep popping occasionally to see how much more ridiculous the thread gets. Thanks for keeping me and others entertained.

You do love to invent 'words' @slozenger

What is 'particulaed'? 'Alass' with an extra letter, hoping it might catch on?

'Cba' Very stroppy teenager mid tantrum.

Posting on MN, especially in AIBU is not for the easily frustrated. You might want to remember that the next time you’re tempted to post a deliberately goady, garbled thread, using words with which you know no-one will be familiar, and yet expecting posters to understand with no explanation. You come across as entitled, unreasonable and rude, so of course you’re going to be picked apart. Here is my contribution. This is one of the most inane threads I’ve ever seen on MN and if I had the Hubble telescope at my fingertips I still couldn’t locate my interest in it. TAKE THAT !!

Edited to ask, what is ‘alass’ ?

Oh, but i like Take That, and at long last recognise something the OP is saying.
#Never forget where you've come here from....

Not anyone I've ever heard in more than 50 years in London, mostly in a job meeting benefits claimants regularly

Just read a few of the OPs latest posts and realised they're American...thank god. Let's hope they still live there (apologies to the reasonable Americans)

Take responsibility, you asked for opinions and people are giving them to you, you just don’t like that the large majority t think you’re a terrible entitled human being.

I am in my 60s. I have lived in London all my life. I have never ever heard the word "sosh" or the expression "on the sosh" before.

Either you are about eight or you are unaware that Take That was a British boyband.