• anonono@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So that they don’t have to work until 67.

    I mean if it were for the government they would put old people in an island and nuke it from time to time.

    Enjoying the fruits of your labor? How dare you.

    It’s also true that population is living longer and younger generations are not having kids. I mean there’s a little trick most don’t know is that those contributions in the form of taxes that you made all your life towards retirement, most of it gets spent immediately by the government. So if younger generations don’t have kids to keep the ponzi running the whole thing falls apart, and one of the symptoms is this, the need to raise retirement age.

  • sycamore@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Because of all the advances over the past generation from email to AI have all combined to make the economy at least twice as productive as it was 30 years ago but we aren’t seeing any benefit.

    The years of leisure workers get at the end of their career should be increasing, not decreasing. Where are all the productivity gains going?

    “Oh, but people are living longer” OK, but we’re also generating twice as much wealth over our careers than the generation before us, and instead of more retirement years or shorter working weeks all we see is billionaire pricks buying up media conglomerates.

    Good luck to the French people. Keep it up. Get angry.

  • Blamemeta@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Because Australians don’t have any fight in them. They’re subjects, not citizens. Sane thing with guns and the hentai ban.