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When German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck invented the world’s first statutory pension scheme in 1889, he set the eligibility age at 70; few people were expected to live long enough to collect benefits, and certainly not for many years.

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Now we rationally know that an economy built on hyper-consumption is a Ponzi scheme.

It's a scheme in the U.K. that matches Mr. Jones, with some spare space in his back garden, with Mrs. Smith, a would-be grower.

So this is how this scheme would look.

So it is time for us Africans to take our destiny in our hands and realize we have agency in the scheme of life.

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