I guess we’re going to have to agree to disagree here. As I said earlier, any discussion of personal finance can be segued into one about pensions. That doesn’t mean that a discussion about pensions is on-topic. For example, this topic, which is about not being able to save for a home down-payment.
Yes, the money that a person pays into the pension system is contributing to that, but is it really such a significant contributor, compared with the housing bubble and wage stagnation? People have been paying into pensions since long before 1998, when, according to the article, it was much easier to buy a house.
That’s not what has happened at all. The posts weren’t flagged as spam, or inappropriate, they were flagged as Off-Topic (which they are).
The description of the Off-Topic flag is: “This post is not relevant to the current discussion as defined by the title and first post, and should probably be moved elsewhere.”
No one is saying, “Don’t engage with this person,” or “Your views aren’t good enough,” they’re saying, “This isn’t relevant to our current discussion, can you (or the mods) please take this particular segue somewhere more appropriate?”
