“In the UK, state pension age would need to be 70 or 71 compared with 66 now, to maintain the status quo of the number of workers per state pensioner.
You know one great way to increase the number of young, taxpaying workers in a country with falling birth rates? Immigration!
Seriously, I’m shocked the article doesn’t mention this. In the UK we have an ageing population with not enough people having children, therefore we have an increasing issue of having too small a working population to pay for our retired population. One solution is to increase the retirement age, this makes our working population larger and also means that folks claim pensions for less time before dying. Another way is to have a working population immigrate. This is one of many reasons why anti-immigration policies are harming our country, our economy, and the everyday quality of life for the average British citizen.
Oneeightnine@feddit.uk 9 months ago
At what point do we have to have a serious conversation about just what sort of work we can expect a 70 year old to be able to do?
It’s all well and good raising the retirement age, but eventually you’ll get to a point where you’ve got people who are simply unemployable because of their age.
adam_y@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Then those people need to be taught a lesson, stripped of any assets and be left to die a miserable death following a period of fear, homelessness and uncertainty.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Did you miss a /s at the end?
Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 9 months ago
Amazon warehouses are full of old people
The truth is they don’t give a shit about you or anyone else. They want us to work until we die. When we’re no longer useful they will throw us into the streets.
Oneeightnine@feddit.uk 9 months ago
I can only speak to the warehouse I work in and it’s generally the case that the older the staff member, the less likely they are to be able to keep pace with the frankly ridiculous level of work we’re expected to do.
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 9 months ago
My mother in law is just figuring this out. 74, lifelong Tory voter, lost her husband a little over a year ago, and struggling to understand why she’s not able to just claim back the money she’s paid in throughout her working life.
Because they don’t want her to have that money. She’s retired now, they couldn’t give a shit whether she dies. In fact, they’d prefer it.
She’s trying to apply for Attendance Allowance, and a variety of other benefits she may be entitled to, and she’s getting rejected despite having a valid claim, because that’s the system. Reject the first claim to discourage the second.
It’s heartbreaking to see.