What the hell were my parents playing at?

The videogame bits of the videogame were good though, I rarely finish anything these days.

The only pension plan we can count on is socialism, there is no retirement coming for us.

So he's saying it isn't providing any tangible benefits and the devs on the team don't like it, and also that there won't be any trace of it in the game. So why use it at all? At the insistence of who exactly?