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  • @grte@lemmy.ca
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    121 year ago

    I’m really conflicted about this. On the one hand, I am not defined by my contribution to the economy, the value capital owners are able to skim off my labour. Fuck off with that.

    On the other, 50-64 year olds who could afford to retire early are exactly the demographic buying into nativist anti-immigration rhetoric resulting in this, and it’s a bit funny thinking about that group getting hoisted by their own petard.

    • @JoBo@feddit.uk
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      71 year ago

      They’re not getting hoisted by anyone’s petard. It’s not the people who can afford a comfortable retirement the liberals* have in their sights here.

      • for any confused USians, that word does not mean what you (probably) think it means
      • @grte@lemmy.ca
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        11 year ago

        That’s exactly who they are targeting as noted in the article. The unretired 50-64 year olds are still in the labour force.

          • @grte@lemmy.ca
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            21 year ago

            The article explicitly about coaxing (or coercing depending on your perspective) older workers who left the workforce due to covid back into the workforce? Yes, I did read that. Did you?

            • @JoBo@feddit.uk
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              11 year ago

              But research also revealed that a substantial number of those who gave up work during the pandemic were hard-up as a result, with reduced expenditure on food and lower wellbeing. Meanwhile, one survey found that a fifth of economically inactive 50- to 64-year-olds were waiting for NHS treatment – evidence of the social and economic damage caused by the vast waiting list for treatment. As well as queues for operations such as hip replacements, economic inactivity is linked to the rising toll of chronic mental and physical illness.

              You know fine well who will be prodded back to work and who will carry on enjoying their well-funded retirements. Or at least, you should if you had a) read the article and b) been paying any attention at all to how the world works and why kites like this are flown.

              • @grte@lemmy.ca
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                11 year ago

                Why did you quote a paragraph referencing people who took an early retirement as evidence that this article is not aimed at exactly that group?

                  • @grte@lemmy.ca
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                    1 year ago

                    who gave up work during the pandemic

                    This is what happens when you quickly scan articles looking for ways to dunk on people without actually grasping the content of the piece.

                    Also, you’re coming at me as though I support what the article is saying. I don’t. I just don’t have the greatest sympathy for people with enough wealth to think they can retire at 50. Even if the retirement is a little tighter than they thought.