While I sympathize with the aim of your comment, it seems factually wrong to me. In the past 100 years, it seems that individual freedom and economic prosperit

While I sympathize with the aim of your comment, it seems factually wrong to me. In the past 100 years, it seems that individual freedom and economic prosperity of the society as a whole correlate. It is hard to tell what is the cause and what the effect. But it pretty obvious that - on average - less free societies are not very successful economically. With respect to the elderly, if I would be killed on retiring, my incentive to work hard and generate wealth until then would probably not be very high. I think that - not only, but also from an economical point of view - it is much better to let people pay into a pension scheme instead. And all economic experts agree that a robust legal system is much better for economy than murder, war, and violence.