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I can sympathise with her if she is trying to make the point that a woman has to put in more effort than the man to receive the same pay, such as working more unpaid hours.

Exactly. If you put no candies for the old age requirements, you are assumed needy and someone else will have to give you candies. So, the message to rational decision makers is that they should spend in the meantime as saving up entails sacrifice and opprobium of being labelled as rich...

If I read China correctly, he is saying that the Cyprus situation represents an extremity scenario where national wealth can be sourced from savings account to fund a sovereign budget crisis. Substitute Cyprus with Australia and there is an analogy with the Gillard Labor government's approach...