• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    Other major drivers behind the boom in older employees include that workers are healthier and less likely to have a disability, and face increasingly steeper financial challenges. Inflation, changes in pension systems and “less generous” Social Security benefits, Fry says, have workers feeling obligated to work longer.


    1. Older workers “still being healthy” is survivorship bias. The ones who aren’t still healthy aren’t in the fucking workplace, they’re either hospitalized or dead.

    2. “Obligated.” Nobody feels “obligated” to work. We feel like we will die on the fucking streets in our old age because we have a broken fucking system that discards us entirely once we are no longer able to produce economic output.


    Obligated my ass, people just want to stay alive, Emmy Lucas of Forbes. Eat shit, Emmy.

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      9 months ago

      They’re craving more money. We need to come to our senses before they find a way to make us live forever to work forever. If corpos could they’d copy your consciousness and make it do spreadsheets until the atmosphere burned up.

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        They’re craving more money.

        That’s certainly many. I’m betting there are other craving meaning for their lives. When we define ourselves by our job, there I bet there is a percentage that find retirement uncomfortable and meaningless. They go back to work for meaning.

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          I meant the corpos are craving money by claiming this is a good thing for everyone to do.

          If you’re an older adult, do whatever the fuck you want as long as you are mentally and physically able to.

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        9 months ago

        They’re craving more money enough to pay increased rent, food and medical expenses - FTFY

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          9 months ago

          The corporations are craving more money.

          Why would I be angry at old people you dolt

          Edit: I see what you’re saying about things having gotten more expensive. This wouldn’t happen if there wasn’t a need to hoard $1.2M to live through your 70s. But nope we chose this.