retirement

72:6.1This na­tion is mak­ing a de­ter­mined ef­fort to re­place the self-re­spect-de­stroy­ing type of char­ity by dig­ni­fied gov­ern­ment-in­sur­ance guar­an­tees of se­cu­rity in old age. This na­tion pro­vides ev­ery child an ed­u­ca­tion and ev­ery man a job; there­fore can it suc­cess­fully carry out such an in­sur­ance scheme for the pro­tec­tion of the in­firm and aged.

72:6.2Among this peo­ple all per­sons must re­tire from gain­ful pur­suit at sixty-five un­less they se­cure a per­mit from the state la­bor com­mis­sioner which will en­ti­tle them to re­main at work un­til the age of sev­enty. This age limit does not ap­ply to gov­ern­ment ser­vants or philoso­phers. The phys­i­cally dis­abled or per­ma­nently crip­pled can be placed on the re­tired list at any age by court or­der coun­ter­signed by the pen­sion com­mis­sioner of the re­gional gov­ern­ment.

72:9.43. All in­di­vid­u­als sen­tenced to com­pul­sory la­bor in the mines and all gov­ern­men­tal ser­vants sup­ported by tax funds are, for the pe­ri­ods of such ser­vices, dis­en­fran­chised. This does not ap­ply to aged per­sons who may be re­tired on pen­sions at sixty-five.

72:6.3The funds for old-age pen­sions are de­rived from four sources:

72:6.41. One day’s earn­ings each month are req­ui­si­tioned by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment for this pur­pose, and in this coun­try ev­ery­body works.

72:6.52. Be­quests—many wealthy cit­i­zens leave funds for this pur­pose.

72:6.63. The earn­ings of com­pul­sory la­bor in the state mines. Af­ter the con­script work­ers sup­port them­selves and set aside their own re­tire­ment con­tri­bu­tions, all ex­cess prof­its on their la­bor are turned over to this pen­sion fund.

72:6.74. The in­come from nat­u­ral re­sources. All nat­u­ral wealth on the con­ti­nent is held as a so­cial trust by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment, and the in­come there­from is uti­lized for so­cial pur­poses, such as dis­ease pre­ven­tion, ed­u­ca­tion of ge­niuses, and ex­penses of es­pe­cially promis­ing in­di­vid­u­als in the states­man­ship schools. One half of the in­come from nat­u­ral re­sources goes to the old-age pen­sion fund.

72:6.8Al­though state and re­gional ac­tu­ar­ial foun­da­tions sup­ply many forms of pro­tec­tive in­sur­ance, old-age pen­sions are solely ad­min­is­tered by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment through the ten re­gional de­part­ments.

72:6.9These gov­ern­ment funds have long been hon­estly ad­min­is­tered. Next to trea­son and mur­der, the heav­i­est penal­ties meted out by the courts are at­tached to be­trayal of pub­lic trust. So­cial and po­lit­i­cal dis­loy­alty are now looked upon as be­ing the most heinous of all crimes.