More older Americans delaying retirement, returning to workforce

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• wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  More older Americans have to live in the America they helped create.

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  • Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think the ones that can’t retire managed to pillage our future as much as the rest.

    They may have voted blue against their best interest, but that wasn’t as clear cut as it has been more recently.

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    • Clent@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, it’s more obvious now but it’s been obvious for a while.

      There is a whole range of issues that this pattern, climate change is another example.

      They fucked around and I’m glad they are finding out. I hope the last words are, “welcome to Walmart” – I don’t want to kink same but empathizing with people who have no shame is not my fetish.

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• Bdtrngl@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The amount of people I work with who are 68+ years old, have 45+ years of service and can barely function is beyond depressing.

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• Gigan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But I thought the boomers setup the system to benefit themselves and screw over everyone else? What happened?

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  • Cockmaster6000@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Over 75 is the silent generation. Most boomers are in their early to mid 60s

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    • Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Turns out they were silent but deadly.

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    • dgilbert@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not quite true. Boomer is based on the baby boom after WW2, so 1945 onwards. 80+ is a better demarcation. I only nitpick since my father and in-laws are 78 and true boomers.

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  • Sprawlie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In my father’s case. it has nothing to do with money.

    He’s bored. His entire boomer life has been dedicated to work. So when it came time to retire, he tried that. Was bored, and decided he enjoyed having things to do. So now he’s working part time doing book keeping for random businesses.

    The boomer generation made work/life balance so skewed towards work for themselves that so many of them, despite enriching themselves from a wealth stand point, do not know what else to do with themselves. ’

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