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.
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.
"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.
This is terrible, old people need to retire and let the next generation take their jobs and pay.
This obviously means that old people need to be able to retire.
As it stands now, I doubt I'll ever experience the golden years for myself...
They always say it like its a cute fun thing and not a matter of life or death for certain demographics
"upliftingnews": this 85 year old woman who is taking care of her orphaned great grandchildren had to get 6 jobs at mcdonalds to pay for rice and beans, but she works 21 hours a day with a smile!
And the picture is a broken person hiding behind a pained mask struggling to lift a paper bag to hand someone their oh-so-important happy meal.
The system is grinding us to dust. Some more blatantly than others.
We need a(n) c/orphancrushingmachine.
This should be on @aboringdystopia
Working: the new social security supplement
And yet, the dominant narrative as their elders crowd them out of jobs, is that young people these days don't want to work
At 49, I've never heard a single person make that claim.
At my job we got one guy who is 75+ and can barely move around. The CEO and a few others are also hitting their 65s. But it's just a handful. The other people are already dead so they can't work. So si totally agree with that sentiment.
They just want more money. We need to wake up before they figure out how to make us work forever by keeping us alive longer.
Many of these old farts don't go back to work because they need the money. It's because their greed is unbound.
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.
"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.
This is terrible, old people need to retire and let the next generation take their jobs and pay.
This obviously means that old people need to be able to retire.
As it stands now, I doubt I'll ever experience the golden years for myself...
They always say it like its a cute fun thing and not a matter of life or death for certain demographics
"upliftingnews": this 85 year old woman who is taking care of her orphaned great grandchildren had to get 6 jobs at mcdonalds to pay for rice and beans, but she works 21 hours a day with a smile!
And the picture is a broken person hiding behind a pained mask struggling to lift a paper bag to hand someone their oh-so-important happy meal.
The system is grinding us to dust. Some more blatantly than others.
We need a(n) c/orphancrushingmachine.
This should be on @aboringdystopia
Working: the new social security supplement
And yet, the dominant narrative as their elders crowd them out of jobs, is that young people these days don't want to work
At 49, I've never heard a single person make that claim.
At my job we got one guy who is 75+ and can barely move around. The CEO and a few others are also hitting their 65s. But it's just a handful. The other people are already dead so they can't work. So si totally agree with that sentiment.
They just want more money. We need to wake up before they figure out how to make us work forever by keeping us alive longer.
Many of these old farts don't go back to work because they need the money. It's because their greed is unbound.