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This is certainly true as far as it goes, if a bit idealistic. Even a slight injection of realism would suggest looking at the darker side of the story. In this day and age people are living longer. Reports say that a man's life expectancy is now seventy three while in 1931 it was only sixty. What underlies this fact is an inevitable call for escalating income taxes paid by those at work so that old people's houses can be maintained and other facilities supplied. Naturally, this is enough to incite the labor force to view it as a thinly veiled attack on their financial situation.